Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

Rando senior vice president and general manager of Compaq Services who had been said to be the heir-apparent to Pfieffer; his division had performed strongly as it had sales of $1. They were trend-setters; now they are lagging". This acquisition made Compaq at the time the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind I.

Eckhard Pfeiffer (born August 20 1941 in Lauban Germany [now Lubań Poland]) is a businessman of German ancestry who served as President and CEO of Compaq from 1991 to 1999.