HP/Compaq Merger Official Today

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Some news from CNET:

New HP offers peek at product plans:

http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39043180,00.htm

Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[George_Dodds]

Here's some info on the new business setup.

http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=53186

Cheers

George

[George_Dodds]

Just incase the link doesn't work, here's the unix bit.

Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and the newly appointed president of HP, said: "We've taken the additional enhanced technical characteristics of Compaq's Tru64 architecture which over time will be integrated into HP-UX."

These features include clustering and file systems.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
As i work on both hp-ux and Tru64, i was thinking on to concentrate which OS. But today announcement by HP says, they will retain both the OS. So in future this forum will be having both hp-ux and Tru64. So the new URL will be
http://forums.itrc.hptru64.com

[John Bolene]

I am much in favor of the merger as it will lead to better products.

We had gone to Compaq for the non-stop systems and now will be back to mostly a one vendor shop.

Looking forward to having Openview working on the non-stop platform!!!!

[Victor_5]

Just go through the HP web site, www.hp.com, it has been merged, but acording to my talk with one of HP consultants early of this week, for HP people, they don't know how to search Compaq products since they don't know where can get what, I guess the same thing for Compaq people, they do need time.

Got a news from China HP yesterday, they created a new management team for the new HP, including four big bosses, all of them came from previous HP, none from Compaq, sounds cool?

[Jeff Schussele]

Guess we'll have to call 'em Hewlett Compackard

Waiting for the other shoe to drop,
Jeff

[Duncan Edmonstone]

for a fun ride through mergers past & present, try pointing you browser here:

http://www.digital.com

Enjoy the ride!

Duncan

[John Carr_2]

Hi

well I too am unsure to the benefits I can gain from the merger , but hope it dosen't result in any degradation of service. Still if it does im sure we will have more to sort out in the forum.

cheers
John.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

digital.com
compaq.com

a lot of class A networks to manage..

But what about dec.com

perhaps OpenVMS is not included.. my personal experience with this beast was one login.. after creating a file and never being able to edit it after I gave up.

Later,
Bill