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To: nigel bates who wrote (13943)	5/19/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: Andrew Vance	Read Replies (1) of 17305

AV--Millipore is a filtration company so I would like to defer to the expertise of Robert Newton on this subject. My professional experience with Millipore products over the years has been very gratifying. They have a quality product that I came to rely on with the semiconductor manufacturing confines. I would imagine this to be the same in the less stringent bio-medical and commercial sectors it deals in. Perkin Elmer is another story. These were the same guys that dominated the lithography market for more than a decade with their projection aligners. They owned the US market entirely with some small unsuccessful forays by two competitors. One had a product that was junk while the other company (Pacific Rim) infringed and disregarded the Perkin Elmer patents. Perkin Elmer sold off those assets as their dominance slipped and their replacements stepper products did not "cut the mustard". Perkin Elmer was always a superior instrumentation company and continues to be such in that regard. I am unsure of the market they deal into but if DNA sequencing and such becomes big and they could be a player, they have decades of respectability behind them. this is a formula for success. I will do some checking but I do not see them as a take over candidate but rather being able to leverage its strengths and remain independent. Andrew BTW-I went surfing and found this link on Hypres, Inc. hypres.com They are still in business, and the pictur of the unit that he said he would build is smack dab on the website. All in all, I think I made the right move not going to work there since it is still privately owned and has just a few million dollars in revenues. However, it was an exciting opportunity at the time. This was a case where I did not take "the road less travelled" and might be the better for it. It is interesting reading and I wonder if they could be a player in the areas you are talking about.

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