San Jose's downtown arena will now share a name with a line of HP's home computers. The arena, home of the San Jose Sharks hockey team, had been known as the Compaq Center since last year under a $47 million, 15-year sponsorship deal Compaq signed with the city of San Jose in October 2000.
"It's not going to be the Fiorina,'' joked Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly."It's going to be the HP Pavilion."
Despite the controversy over the merger, customers have not taken their business elsewhere. HP received more than $5 billion in orders since the merger was announced in September, according to Fiorina.
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