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Hewlett-Packard's Deal with Compaq May Affect NYSE.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2002
By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 17--NEW YORK--The New York Stock Exchange wants to go paperless this year, and the effort could soon depend on two companies' ability to come together as if they were made for each other.
Compaq Computer Corp., which plans to merge with Hewlett-Packard Co., is supplying its iPaq handheld computers to the NYSE so traders can digitally transmit their orders instead of writing them down.
H-P has promised to support Compaq's customers if the merger succeeds, but it has declined to say whether it will keep iPaqs as a product.
The NYSE's wireless effort shows just how delicately the two companies will have to handle each customer's situation to make...
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