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To: Alski who wrote (38949)	2/4/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (3) of 45548

FUlly tax free only satisfies one aspect of the requirement... the other is the 5 year rule. Again ... this is an AND not an OR. Pooling is a non issue as pooling suggests that a suitor will want to divest a portion of the company prior to a 2 year window. This is actually bad.. and I'm amazed that I'm the only one that sees this. If I were a suitor and I liked PALM - thought is was going to be a hit... I'd buy COMS.. not spin-off the shares to stockholder - use the tax consequences as an excuse and be on my merry way. The cash COMS holds + PALM make it tasty. The business that were not interesting I could cash cow and kill over the two year period. There is nothing that says they have to continue to support non-performing units. What I'm trying to say is that POOLING is a waste of time to discuss. Anyone buying COMS will be doing it to get to PALM and to get to growth businesses... and the cash COMS holds makes stomaching the cash cow businesses all that much easier. OG

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