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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ed who wrote (19484)	3/5/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: Jason Ellis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Here is some good news for Compaq from Computer Reseller News: [If Compaq's $14 billion acquisition of DEC goes thru, it could change the competitive landscape significantly and make Alpha a very hot commodity. In fact, a statement about the DEC acquisition by Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer called special attention to the Alpha platform, saying that Compaq is committed to "investing in DEC's strategic assets, particularly its worldwide service organization, as well as its 64 bit leadership with alpha microprocessors..." Compaq has had a rocky relationship w/ Intel over the past few years due to chip pricing, supply issues and Compaq's use of other vendors such as Cyrix and AMD. Buying DEC and the rights to the alpha tech. could provide Compaq with the opportunity to greatly decrease its dependence on Intel for processors, and even allow it to bypass the company completely if the need arose......Compaq wouldn't have to dance to Intel's tune in order to get cutting edge tech. for its product. DEC recently announced that its Alpha 21264 processors, schedule to ship before the year 2000, will break 1000MHz speed barrier. If Compaq scales back its use of Intel Processors and puts its marketing muscle behind alternative chip suppliers, it could change the balance of power in the CPU market.] ----------- Now for those of you who are not well verse in NT, note that after Windows 98 come out this Aug, which is the same date that NT 5.0 coming out, Windows 98 will be the very last version of 16 bit/32 bit hybrid Windows based Operating system. AFter that, Microsoft will be distributing NT 6.0 in the future, say in 1999 and beyond. Now the beauty behind NT is that it supports any chip, it doesn't has to be an Intel based CPU. So with less than a year ago, Compaq will be making money on CPU as well as computers. DEC Alpha is the fastest chip in the market, with NT supporting all chips, just selling the Alpha chips could be a very sizeable fortune. By the way, NT 5.0 is coded based on Alpha chip series, not Intel based series processors.