Admins,
The merger may normally be rejected by the FTC based on monopoly concerns,
but in today's economic climate they are going to be very hesitant to squash
any technology merger which could impact the market positively. Wall street
will love the idea of the ineviatble 20 - 40,000 people that will lose
their jobs once the deal is done.
Let's face it - HP systems are a joke compared to the Alphaservers, and the
systems division has been dragging HP down in recent years. They need to
drop the entire division and focus on printers only. Of course they are not
doing this. They think that by agressively buying companies like Compaq and
Comdisco they can aquire the technology and service divisions that they have
been unable to build themselves. Good luck...
Jim McCusker
Central Systems Manager, BOC Gases
Business: (908) 771-1930
Cell: (908) 295-5573
mailto:james.mccusker_at_us.gases.boc.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Notari, Ed [mailto:NotariE_at_usa.redcross.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:54 AM
To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
Subject: HP / Compaq Merger
Tru64 Admin's...
Doesn't a merger of this magnitude need to be approved by The Federal Trade
Commission (FTC)? And if so, isn't there a way for us, as Administrators,
to voice our concerns about the possible implications of such a merger?
Does anyone know how things like this work?
Ed Notari
Senior Research Associate - ARCNET Program
Transmissible Diseases Dept.
Jerome H. Holland Laboratory
Phone: 301-738-0646
FAX: 301-738-0495
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