COMPAQH-P

Bruce Halliday bruce.halliday at garthtoombs.com
Mon Sep 10 07:17:55 PDT 2001


as you imply, this is an opportunity to have all voices in the room to
identify the best of each organization that we want to take forward into the
future....Bruce
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Bruce Halliday   403-777-2364
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Beck György" <gbeck at beckground.hu>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 6:43 AM
Subject: COMPAQH-P


> Dear Everyone,
>
> The Wall Street Journal Europe has dedicated a full page to the Compaq -
H-P
> merger.
> There was one sentence startling me, saying: "The real power in Compaq
.lies
> with the country managers who oversee distinct national operations, say in
> France or the U.K. But at H-P, it's the managers, who direct specific
> product lines, such as personal computers or UNIX servers, who hold the
> reins.
> <<If you want to set out a strategy for merging Compaq Europe and H-P
Europe
> it's not clear who should even be in the room>> . While each has a trace
of
> the other's model, the existing organisational differences could make it
> harder to integrate the two companies should the proposed acquisition, .,
go
> through. Morover if H-P botches the combination, it risks losing scores of
> talented managers and engineers, just as Daimler did when swallowed
> Chrysler."
>
> After reading it I see a slight chance of a global OS, involving local
> operations and also the US HQ-s having initiated the whole merger.
> I think we have a network of OS practitioners and software to handle the
> on-line OS part.
> There is not more preconception, but I think it is worth to think over.
>
> I see one key question for the parties: go into a power game or finding a
> synergic solution fos the monster borning.
>
> Looking for your comments.
>
> Gyuri
> gbeck at beckground.hu
>
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