The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.
We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.
We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.
In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.
When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.
We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.