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To: rudedog who wrote (45660)1/27/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: rupert1  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
rudedog: I agree. Currently, I would not like a give-away of shares to investors or to anybody. However, there comes a point where COMPAQ with its Underwriters, decides what the IPO price is going to be. At the point, investors should be given the opportunity to buy at the IPO price. The quota should be related to the number of COMPAQ shares held at some specified date. We all know it will be a license for the investors to print money - the share price will shoot up on opening day. Some might sell others would hold for a wild internet ride. The inflated share price of the IPO will eventually be used by Alta Vista to finance its acquisition of other companies.
Alta Vista will be in a position to issue new stock, as time goes on.

It would be interesting to see what value CPQ, the parent comapny, will put on its AV shareholdings in its Balance Sheet once the wild ride begins. It will have to show the nominal value of the stock, but it will probably have some means of discounting its value to satisfy nervous auditors.
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