What’s in a Name?
R. Krause - October 23, 2000

Event Summary

On October 9, Hewlett-Packard announced that it will forgo the creation of an 'e-Brio' line of e-PC products for small business, and instead lump the e-Vectra and e-Brio lines under the SMB e-PC banner. HP's e-PCs are small, stripped-down versions of the standard desktop machine, competing in the same market as Compaq's iPAQ and IBM's NetVista products. Currently, the standard Vectra product line is aimed at the corporate PC market, and standard Brio is aimed at small business. The SMB e-PC line will cover both those markets. HP will provide only four different hardware configurations for the new line, a reduction from the eight for the combined e-Vectra and e-Brio lines, which have four each.HP expects to have shipped 500,000 units by April, 2001. Market Impact..