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SPECIAL REPORTS Tech TIME: What You Got 21 Days to Baghdad Election...
...personalities driving HP's long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer giant) and IBM (a leader in tech services and server computers). But certain key shareholders--including the children of HP's garage-dwelling founders and geek-world deities Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard--think the proposed merger...
...that at first embodied the ideals of innovation and good corporate citizenship but has come to mean many things to many people over the past 60 years. Now two polar-opposite visions of the company's destiny--indeed, of how best to survive in today's rough-and-tumble tech economy--have taken shape. When the smoke clears, there will be only...
...course, that sidesteps the question of whether HP and Compaq can successfully merge without leaving the floor slick with blood. Most large-scale tech-firm mergers have been hideous disasters. Compaq's last acquisition, the Digital Equipment Corp., was a textbook example of how not to do it. Good products died, top talent fled and resentment lingered for years after management cut 15,000 jobs. Now HP plans, upon the merger, to lay off 15,000; it also hopes for cost savings of $2.5 billion. A team of 500 is working full time on integrating the companies, though most...
SPECIAL REPORTS Tech TIME: What You Got 21 Days to Baghdad Election...