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Technology Stocks : Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PCSS who wrote (1657)	8/15/2002 9:46:11 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 4345

Interesting that Niles upgrades HPQ on the morning of the day that DELL reports earnings. Niles has been bullish on HPQ for some time and this is probably just another effort to prop up the shares, this time in anticipation of more news from DELL that they are stealing market share and a likely announcement that DELL will be entering the printer space. El

To: PCSS who wrote (1657)	8/15/2002 9:51:23 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4345

Laura Conigliaro is a joke! She downgrades SUNW @ 4 bucks? Where was she when it was 70? Classic analyst "upgrade at the high and downgrade at the low" mentality. El

To: PCSS who wrote (1657)	8/17/2002 11:04:17 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

This is IT. This is the essence of why I like CPQ now hpq. Magee doesn't know what it all means... neither do I!!!! 213.219.40.69 HP/Compaq buys into .NET Looking forward to MS Blackcomb By Mike Magee: Friday 16 August 2002, 09:26 A DOCUMENT SEEN by the INQUIRER shows that HP-Compaq appears to have bought into Microsoft's .NET wholesale. We were going to say hook, line and sinker but Microsoft wants to trawl, not to catch individual fish with its cunning plan. Mind you, there's a lot of confusion about just what .NET is, and judging from some of the slides in the very lengthy presentation we saw, HP is not entirely sure about just what some of these components might be. One slide purports to show a .NET roadmapwhich is interesting because it gives you the general drift of the Microsoft trawl. That looks very much like the following: 2000 2001 2002 Plus Infrastructure/tools .NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET .NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET n+1 Building Block Services Passport Additional services Corporate federation Enterprise Servers .NET Enterprise Servers Mobile Info Server Supplier Accelerator n+1 OSes W2K Windows XP Blackcomb, next gen UI Corporate Federation sounds a bit spooky. And yes, of course there will be a new user interface called Blackcomb, just in time for people who have figured out how to make their copies of Windows XP look like Windows 98. The .NET, err... net, appears designed to capture every programmer on the planet by using C#, a languaged which claims to be based on C and C++, and is designed specifically for the .NET framework. "Framwork" apps will make Windows 32 and Windows 64 API calls, call existing DLLs, access and be accessed by COM objects, use COM+ services and work with all .NET Enterprise Servers. It will support Objective CAML, Oz, Mercury, Scheme, Oberon, SmallTalk, C#, VB, C++, Fortran, APL, Ada, ML, Pascal, Haskell, Eiffel, Jscript, Cobol, Python and Perl. The .NET compact Framework will support PDAs, "enhanced" TV, and will be compatible with the desktop platform, across different CPU types, WINCE and real time operating systems. HP appears to think .NET is such a good idea as it maps closely to its own desktop, server and other devices it makes. No kidding. µ