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| Author: | McWilliams, G. |
| Title: | Power play |
| Journal: | Business Week
1998 : FEB 9, VOL. 3548:878, p. 34-41 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS COMPUTERS COMPUTER SYSTEMS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Since taking over the world's largest maker of personal computers six years ago, Compaq Chief Executive Eckhard Pfeiffer has regularly sent shock waves through the PC business. Get ready for another shakeup -- only this one will reach far beyond the PC crowd and into every corner of the $700 billion computer world. On Jan.26, Pfeiffer and Digital Equipment Corp. Chief Executive Robert B.Palmer concluded four days of intense negotiations by shaking hands on a record-breaking $8.7 billion acquisition. |
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