Compaq Computer
Company
The American supplier of the computer equipment sold to HP company in 2002 for $25 billion.
In 2002, in a dispute with Dell for the sphere of the PC, the HP company purchased the producer of Compaq personal computers for $25 billion but it distracted the attention from other, not less important sphere: victories over IBM in the field of servers, storage systems and services.
Merge made a profile of HP narrower. To shareholders and Wall Street it was not pleasant. After the transaction of the share price of HP fell to a quarter.
In 2005 the CEO of HP Carly Fiorina was forced to resign at the share price in a half of what they cost when she entered a position in 1999.