Word: compaq
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...problem is, most people who write on, work in and think about technology are usually in love with the subject matter. Pick up a copy of Wired, or PC World, and you expect to see glowing articles about the latest release from Compaq or Microsoft. But a cheerleader's enthusiasm, not a critic's curiosity, pervades the entirety of society's views on technology...
...room, a meter and a half wide, decorated with the awkward minimalism that passes for modern chic in the still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle...
...that doesn't mean it's time to sell. "Gangway, everybody. Here comes Dell," writes FORTUNE senior writer Andrew Serwer in FORTUNE Business Report. "There's so much more market share to be had, and it doesn't even have to take it from Compaq, IBM or Hewlett Packard." Serwer says Dell is poised for another major...
Digital completes a strategic triangle. It produces such high-margin items as the servers that link thousands of PCs on the Net, but its support staff serves such blue-chip customers as Citicorp and Lockheed Martin. Digital will smooth Compaq's path into the corporate computing world coveted by Pfeiffer. "Services open the door for hardware," says Digital chairman Robert Palmer...
...Compaq wasted little time flexing its muscle. Shortly after announcing the Digital deal, Compaq elbowed IBM aside to become the exclusive PC supplier to Radio Shack's chain of 6,800 electronics stores. It surprised no one to watch an upstart that began by copying IBM triumph in a byte-to-byte contest with Big Blue...