Compaq in a sentence

In May 2007, HP announced in a press release a new logo for their Compaq Division to be placed on the new model Compaq Post merger logo for Compaq products.

After the merger closed, Compaq moved aggressively to reduce Digital’s high selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs (equal to 24% of total 1997 revenues) and bring them more in line with Compaq’s SG&A expense ratio of 12% of revenues.

HP's business computers line was discontinued in favour of the Compaq Evo line, which was rebranded HP Compaq.

It was Compaq's first non-portable computer and began the Compaq Deskpro line of computers.

Rose had joined Compaq in 1993 from Digital Equipment Corporation where he oversaw the personal computer division and worldwide engineering, while Stimac had been with Compaq since 1982 and was one of the longest-serving executives.

That year Compaq forecast demand poorly and overshipped too many PCs, causing resellers to dump them at fire sale prices, and since Compaq protected resellers from heavy losses it cost them two quarters of operating profits.

The "Compaq" name from its "HP Compaq" series was originally used for all of HP's business and budget notebooks.

They have licensed Compaq Visual Fortran and have provided the Visual Studio 5 environment interface for Compaq v6 up to v6.1. citation Specific variants Vendors of high-performance scientific computers (e.

This allowed Compaq to compete in the "big-iron market" without incurring the costs of running its own services or software businesses. citation In January 1998, Compaq was at its height.

When DEC was sold to Compaq Corporation in 1998, Compaq discontinued Alpha processor development.

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant reacts afternoon a fouth quarter dunk late in the game Saturday at the Compaq Center in Houston during game four of the NBA Western Conference playoffs in 1999.

All Compaq computers now ship with HP software.

Alpha was also implemented in the Piranha, a research prototype developed by Compaq's Corporate Research and Nonstop Hardware Development groups at the Western Research Laboratory and Systems Research Center.

Although Compaq had become successful by being 100 percent IBM-compatible, it decided to continue with the original AT bus—which it renamed ISA —instead of licensing IBM's MCA.

An IBM-made 386 machine eventually reached the market seven months later, but by that time Compaq was the 386 supplier of choice and IBM had lost its image of technical leadership.

At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, had tried to become a major systems company, like IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

By summer 1998, Compaq was suffering from product-quality problems.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.