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

To: John Koligman who wrote (21628)	3/13/1998 8:35:00 AM
From: NoPainNoGain	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

John, Compaq has three huge manufacturing facilities in Houston, Scotland, and Singapore, as well as manufacturing facilities in China and Brazil. In addition, a new but small plant in Australia does some basic chassis assembly. Smaller outfits in Austin, Dallas, and Massachusetts make various networking components. I'm not sure where or how Tandem makes their fail safe computers but the Tandem head quarters is in California. The Houston facilities are very large in scale and support virtually all of North American sales operations. The Houston and Singapore sites make Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) as well as the assemble the entire unit (CPU operations) like the other facilities. In general, most Compaq circuit boards, chips, servers, computers, and a good portion of Compaq software are designed at the main campus in Houston. In answer to your question, yes, Compaq has virtually unlimited room for expansion at their Houston site, should they choose to do that. Sitting right across the brand new freeway from Compaq's main worldwide headquarters site is an 800 acre parcel of land that is currently mostly unused. That's about 1.2 square miles. In comparision, the main campus is probably about 600 acres. Plenty of room for expansion. In fact, two 10 story office towers are under construction right now at this very minute, along with another 1,000 car parking garage. I'll be glad to answer questions about Compaq operations from the thread as I have time and opportunity, but only those questions of a general nature. I'd rather not compromise my employment status <grin>. In other words, I'll answer those questions that can be answered with public (or conceivably public) information. For example, everything I've put in this post is information of a general nature that anyone could find out for themselves by simply driving through Compaq's main campus, or by studying Compaq's web page at www.compaq.com and/or similar sources on the web. I haven't paid my $125 bucks to SI yet, so I can only post three messages a day night now.