HP's Carly doesn't travel with hairdresser

WE DON'T THINK THAT the love-affair between Carly Fiorina and Curly Capellas has soured the following - which is a confirmation from Oracle that it thinks the Q's plans to port Open VMS to the Itanic are, well, OK:

"Oracle and Compaq have a long and successful history of delivering enterprise solutions to our OpenVMS customers. In July, Oracle released Rdb 7.1 for OpenVMS. Oracle also expects to release Oracle9i for OpenVMS later this month and faster than ever before!

"Finally, given Compaq's recently announced plans to consolidate its 64-bit servers on the Itanium Processor Family (tm), our engineering teams have already begun working closely together to establish plans for the delivery of future releases of Oracle and Rdb on OpenVMS Itanium.

"Juan C. Jones
"Vice President
"System Platforms Division
"Oracle Corporation
"September 7, 2001"

Our man not in Havana, Cedric Zool the Kool, tells us that the other ISVs are also on board the IPF Express

But in other, more human interest news, we learn of the following exchange:

"MICHAEL CAPELLAS: We've even changed the rules here. Normally we have these employee meetings, cookies and coffee was off limits, because we're really being tight in the old Op-Ex, but we do have some stuff outside. Have a great day, everybody."

We learn that there are misconceptions...

"CARLY FIORINA: So, for example, there are some silly things that have been written about me. No, Idon't travel with a hairdresser.

MICHAEL CAPELLAS: But I lend her mine.

(Laughter.)"

"QUESTION: Yes, I have a two part question, and I'm looking for a comment first from Carly and then from Michael. I'm up here in True 64 portion of the business for Compaq, and recently HP has announced a layoff of approximately 150 people who were doing, I believe, the Itanium port down in New Jersey. And I'm just wondering if you want to comment on that?

And, Michael, how do you think that plays up here?"

Carly told him he was confused and Michael said email me.