COMPAQ FOLDS UP ITS NETWORKING UNIT.Just months after the splashy splash·y adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est 1. Making or likely to make splashes. 2. Covered with splashes of color. 3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy. debut of Compaq (Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX, www.compaq.com) Compaq was the leading PC manufacturer when it was acquired by HP in 2002. Founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, one year later the company shipped 53,000 PC-compatible COMPAQ Portables, resulting in $111 Computer Corp's Network and Access Communications
Access Communications Co-operative Ltd. division, the company is to fold the unit and distribute its products out to various existing divisions. A Compaq spokesperson said that the decision would align align (  līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. its networking products more closely with the company's core PC and server businesses and set the company apart from rivals, by allowing it to offer a more integrated approach to products and servicing. The restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). , which takes place today (January 4), will see Network Interface Cards (NICs) taken on by the industry standard servers division; attached networking products by the relevant PC and server divisions; and modems by the enhancements and monitors division and carbon copy product by the customer services division. What remains of the network and access communications office - the switches and hubs products - is to be taken under the wing of the Enterprise Group, the spokesperson said. She said that the company did not anticipate job losses because of the reorganization. |
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