Witchhunt starts at HP as Halloween approaches

But we can tell HP that we already know that the sound of falling axes that was slated for this coming Halloween has been brought forward by two weeks.

Our moles in South America tell us that Tru64 engineers are looking nervously at their lines of code, because the rumors go that the 27,000 layoffs to date will look paltry as Halloween approaches.

The VMS engineers are frantically scrabbling to get their Opal release out and the new service "model" starts on the eighth of September.

Meanwhile, CSC is checking out the INQUIRER pages to find if we know something that it doesn't know itself.

"It's like three companies inside one company," one breathless friend told me today. "We're all desperately carving out our brassicas, lighting candles, and hoping for the best".

Neeps! µ

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