HP-Compaq: What happens now?
Published: 04 Sep 2001 12:50 BST
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS
Kewney's World: the HP-Compaq merger
Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have announced that they're merging, creating a PC giant second only to IBM. Guy Kewney takes a look at what this might mean for the PC market, the consumer and Intel.
NEWS
Lexmark can live without Compaq
Weds 5th Sept Fears that the loss of Compaq's business as a result of the merger with HP will cost Lexmark dear are unfounded, say some analysts
Fiorina to HP ranks: It's a 'historic day'
Weds 5th Sept HP chief executive details integration plans in a company-wide memo
Summer fling turns into deal for HP, Compaq
Weds 5th Sept One of the biggest PC industry mergers ever started with a phone call over technology licensing
HP-Compaq merger means more job cuts
Weds 5th Sept The combined company plans to shave 15,000 jobs as part of an effort to save $2.5bn a year
Merger caps short, turbulent Compaq history
Weds 5th Sept Compaq is about to disappear after a brilliant career that started in 1984 and fell apart only 16 years later
Wall Street: HP plus Compaq may not add up
Weds 5th Sept Short-lived market rally around Compaq as analysts search for the deal's upside
HP-Compaq merger may complicate Microsoft relations
Weds 5th Sept Deal will bring together two companies that have very different relationships with Microsoft
HP-Compaq deal not likely to scare Dell
Weds 5th Sept Even combined, the companies will have a difficult time matching up to Dell's direct, build-to-order model
HP-Compaq would be European titan
Tues 4 Sept The combined company would have more than double the PC market share of its nearest European competitor, but for how long?
HP to buy Compaq for $25bn
Tue 4 Sep Two of the 'big four' PC makers merge in one of the biggest deals in technology history, creating a company second in revenue only to IBM - but layoffs are inevitable
HP-Compaq: Merging is the easy part
Tue 4 Sep News analysis: Price pressures, slowing PC sales, sour economy and inherent merger difficulties set to make deal a headache
Fiorina: The quest continues
Tue 4 Sep A few weeks ago, observers wondered if Carly Fiorina would be pushed out as chief of HP -- now she's running the second-largest PC company in the world
"New" HP set to rule in Asia
Tue 4 Sep The biggest PC manufacturer in Asia is not Compaq, IBM or Dell, but China's Legend Computer. Not for much longer, say analysts
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