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To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (14985)	1/23/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Xenogenetic	Read Replies (3) of 74651

MSFT buyout of YHOO rumor. Taken from BusinessWeek 1/20: If Yahoo, the co-holder with AOL of the content crown, has a weakness, it's that it has no distribution capability. And it may have grown too big to partner with an infrastructure company. "No firm can buy Yahoo," says Dataquest's O'Neill. "That means that they could only have a merger of equals. But right now, Yahoo has no equals." Unless you count Microsoft, of course. The market currently values it at $388 billion, which would make it one of the few companies big enough to swallow Yahoo. Reports that both Microsoft and Yahoo were jilted bidders for Excite have led to speculation that those two may now join forces as a mega-Internet company. Such a merger would allow Microsoft to eventually split up its operating system and applications software businesses -- which it might be required to do if it loses its court battle with the Justice Dept. -- and focus on providing Internet content. But for now, anyway, it's only a rumor. This seems like a long shot to me. I would think that the DOJ would not allow such a deal to take place. But, who knows?

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