See, Compaq and HP both have a lot of stupidity.

Apparently, they got too much close to each other, and now its reached critical mass, and is coalesing into a Moronic Hole.. kind of like a black hole, but no intelligent thought gets out.

More seriously, the reason I say that, is that both company kind of muddle around, and miss their best points, and get by, with some collossal stupidity that takes back all the hard-won gains.

The two of them together, I suspect, will toss most of the thought, and the PHB thought process will be even more ingrained, and now there's more bureaucracy and power struggles and...

Addison