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To: Lynn who wrote (4089)	8/30/2007 9:46:12 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

It may not have been friendly but it wasn't nasty. And if your looking for anything that could be interpreted as in any way unfriendly you have to look first to earlier posts by other people. Personally I think its best to not look for ways to see things as nasty. Really nasty posts will be obvious, and more questionable posts are probably best ignored, rather than everyone getting upset, and very little, and then making their own posts that give other people reason to get upset.

To: Lynn who wrote (4089)	8/30/2007 10:12:32 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 4345

1. You and NW got defensive and pissy long before I made an allegedly "nasty and uncalled for" reference to DEC. 2. No one said CPQ wasn't once a great company or that it didn't, still, have lots of great people at the time of the merger. CPQ, IIRC, grew from nothing into a billion dollar company in then record time. It also did very well - much better than Lew Platt's already "too big to grow" HP - in the stock market from 1995 to 1998 as the chart I posted shows. But it fell hard - and not just in stock performance, but also financially - after the DEC purchase and by 2000, HP had passed it by. 3. Do your own stock charting, if it matters so much to you. My original contention was that CPQ was a more volatile stock than HWP back in the day when the CPQ thread was, as you made a point of quantifying, much more active than HWP's. This is entirely true. 4. As for why this thread is so quiet relative to either of the old ones, I'll amend my earlier speculation that it is mostly because stock thread posting volume is generally down by adding that it might have something to do with the cliquishness and defensiveness of some posters. That or there's just less to say when things are going well and you aren't caught up in a bubble.