"Would be" is the operative term, here. The deal hasn't gone through yet, and may not, depending on what the regulators have to say about it.
The plan was met with a cold reception on Wall Street and, well... everywhere else, actually. Even Walter Hewlett, the old, contrarian HP director, who hasnt said a word for years, piped up, Daddy Warbucks-style, to say he thinks the plan bites large (or, at least, words to that effect).
As the biggest deal of the year not to actually happen, the Compaq/HP merger scrapes onto our list at No. 10.
No. 9: New Technologies
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