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To: Hobie1Kenobe who wrote (125760)5/18/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: Ian@SI  Respond to of 176387
 
May 18, 1999




Compaq to Plans to Shut Plant Acquired
In Digital Purchase, Eliminating 900 Jobs
By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter

HOUSTON -- Compaq Computer Corp., in the first cost-cutting move since reporting a profit slide last month, said it plans to shutter a computer manufacturing plant, cutting 900 jobs.

Head of Compaq Services Unit Resigns in Third Recent High-Level Departure (May 12)

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Company Profile: Compaq

The Salem, N.H., operation, which builds Alpha minicomputers and workstations that were acquired with the purchase of Digital Equipment Corp., will halt production over the next nine months. The plant's products will be transferred to two existing plants in California and Texas.
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Love this growth rate. :^)

Whole story at:
interactive.wsj.com



To: Hobie1Kenobe who wrote (125760)5/18/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: edamo  Respond to of 176387
 
jf3, or may i call you jf,jf,jf?...<ot>

if you are duly registered, i will include you in a charitable remainder trust! <g>

many years ago, in a land far away, the only analyst recommendations were "buy,sell,or hold"......very rarely a change made....but we gotta keep the mba's working....a bit absurd, but the separate reality of today...."too many, herding even more, with too little knowledge!"..... good luck, ed a.