From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 19:17:54 EDT
yeah, i know..
no time yet to consider this newest of "HUH..!!" reactions..
i'm still scratching my head over the h/p - compaq deal..
uhmm, anyone want to buy some original unopened proxy solicitations from the
biggest proxy battle in years..
some contain personal please from walter hewlett.. :-)
and some contain the offer of a date, from carly..!
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goldman" <David_at_DGoldman.Com>
To: "Thinkpad mailing list" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: IBM TO CONSOLIDATE HARD DISK BUSINESS WITH HITACHI
> Posted April 17, 2002 05:19 Pacific Time
>
> IBM AND HITACHI are to pool their hard disk drive
> businesses into a company majority-owned by Hitachi.
> Lackluster results in IBM's hard disk drive (HDD)
> business and a belief that other sectors of the
> storage industry offer better growth opportunities led
> IBM to the deal, it said.
>
> Tokyo's Hitachi will pay IBM for a 70 percent stake in
> the yet-to-be-formed company under the deal announced
> Wednesday. The new company will be based in San Jose,
> Calif., and draw its chief executive officer from
> Hitachi.
>
>
> For the full story:
>
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/17/020417hnimbhit.xml?0417wep
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