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With the bitter six-month proxy battle behind them, Hewlett-Packard Co. executives are ready to roll out a new and much bigger company next week that includes all the assets and liabilities of Compaq Computer Corp. The Palo Alto, Calif., company on Friday will complete its long disputed $19 billion buyout of Houston-based Compaq after winning […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced that it will complete its $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. and that the merged companies will formally launch as the new HP on May 7. The declaration accompanied the companys announcement that today it has officially been declared the winner of a controversial March 19 HP shareholder vote. The […]

Walter Hewlett will not appeal a Delaware judges dismissal of his lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., ending his long proxy fight to block the computer makers $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. Hewlett issued a statement announcing his decision after Delaware Chancery Court Judge William Chandler III ruled late Tuesday that the HP heir had […]

A Delaware judge has dismissed Walter Hewletts lawsuit accusing Hewlett-Packard Co. of misconduct during its efforts to lobby shareholders to support the companys $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. Judge William Chandler III of the Delaware Chancery Court issued his ruling shortly after the stock markets closed in New York Tuesday. The ruling clears […]

A Delaware judge has dismissed Walter Hewletts lawsuit accusing Hewlett-Packard Co. of misconduct during its efforts to lobby shareholders to support the companys $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. Judge William Chandler III of the Delaware Chancery Court issued his ruling shortly after the stock markets closed in New York Tuesday. The ruling clears […]

A new monolithic storage system to be announced next week by Hitachi Ltd. and its Hitachi Data Systems division will directly challenge archrival EMC Corp. with a taste of EMCs own “bigger is better” medicine. The new product, called the Freedom 9980, will scale to 143 terabytes even before its clustered, according to sources close […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and HP heir Walter Hewlett are awaiting a Delaware judges ruling that could derail the companys buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., after both sides fired off final salvos in their court battle over allegations HP misled and strong-armed investors to win a close proxy fight. Following last weeks bitter trial, highlighted by a […]

End-to-end integration: Create incentives for suppliers to become part of a unified data flow that doesnt involve parallel data collections with high maintenance costs. Think in both directions: Coordinate the messages from the enterprise to the customer as an entity, and the multichannel inputs from that entity to the enterprise, rather than fragmenting interaction among […]

Domestic privacy legislation could significantly affect collection, use and enterprise partner sharing of customer transaction data (www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/11046.html) Non-U.S. privacy legislation will affect international operations (www.meridien-research.com/doc.asp?docid=765) High volumes of data and real-time availability demands will place pressure on all elements of IT in-frastructure, notably data backup (www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=702&a=25480,00.asp) Upcoming conferences include: Business Intelligence CRM 2002 Conference: London, […]

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The Innovation in Infrastructure Awards are a benchmark for networking infrastructure products. Lab analysts and editors from eWEEK and sister publication PC Magazine collaborated to select the most innovative and advanced networking infrastructure products released in the last year. The i3 finalists are listed below, and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony […]

If youre going to have standards, youre going to need a way to manage them. To do that, WebMethods Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have unveiled Open Management Interface Version 1.0. The OMI specification defines standards using XML, Simple Object Access Protocol and HTTP. OMI will enable customers to use systems management tools to manage and […]