Carly was quick to try and impose her view of HP culture on the entire post merger company, to the point where it felt there were little acts of rebellion here and there. If you watched a post merger Proliant at boot closely, there were several times the firmware would intentionally spit out Compaq onscreen in red text, before quickly changing to the blue HP text.

One move that really affected morale at pre merger Compaq and DEC sites was the credit union situation. Compaq was fine with leaving DCU in places it had already existed, but HP post merger pushed to get rid of them all and replace them with Addison Avenue branches. Almost everyone I knew with DCU accounts kept their paychecks going there, instead of switching over to Addison. The only people who used the local on site branch were newer post merger employees.

She even went as far as replacing everyones employee badges as quickly as possible, with new landscape ones, nicknamed "the Carly badge". You had to know you worked for HP as quickly as possible. Compare that to some of my employee paperwork in 2000 still said Digital on it, 2 years after the Compaq/Digital merger.

Very little of the Compaq culture survived the merger, outside the strong enterprise business groups.