Ed...OT....OT....something from the CPQ thread on the 5fer interview tomorrow!!
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Q. Good Morning EP
EP: Good Internet
Q. Why did you warn so late?
EP: Late! But we have not launched the Alta Vista IPO yet. We will give lots of notice so that many more new stockholders can get rich when we do. Buy now and don't be late, yourself.
Q. Part of your trouble arises from difficulties you have adapting to direct which is causing bad relations with the re-sellers.
A No. We sell over 76% of our products on the Internet even when we sell to re-sellers. You see the Internet is our blood stream, the re-sellers are, therefore, our blood brothers.
Q. You say your problems are industry wide but everybody else says the industry is fine - DELL, HWP contradict you. Intel results contradict you.
A. The Internet is a great leveller - and we will see who has the best search engine, the best e-commerce division and the best Internet servers when this is all over. We will give an "Alter Vista" of the market than the one you have just given.
Q. CPQ share price is back where it was 12 months ago. You are in a mess.
A. Wait to see what happens when we launch Alta Vista - COMPAQ will be the first Fortune 100 "internut".
Q. You used to be a sure-fire growth prospect. It looks like Digital is pulling you down.
A. We paid $9 billion for Digital and the Alta Vista part of it will be worth $40 billion in six months time.
Q. DELL is gaining market share on you in the commercial end.
A. No it isn't, that's part of its propaganda. And if Michael Dell doesn't stop lying we might use Alta Vista shares to buy out his tin pot company.
Q. What about AV - have you got a deal in the works with a content provider and when will the IPO be?
A. I thought you'd never ask! We were going to do deal with a big content provider - but it seems that we would get much quicker share growth in the new IPO by having as little content as possible. We will select a launch date and an initial price based on what we, in the industry, call "the bigger fool theory".
Q. What is the vision or stratgey.
A. We want to start small, get bigger, and then take over the WHOLE VORLD. We will use violence if necessary.
Q. Will there be restructuring, for example will you get the sack.
A. We are restructuring now. The red Q logo is going to become blue and I think we will use a pretty Austrian Mountain scene instead.
Q. What do you think of my tie
A I love the little Alta Vista logos on it - I'm glad you got our gift pack in time for the show.
Q. Thank you EP you are so funny.
A. It's the German in me. May I ask you a question - what do you think of my hair?
Q. We'll take a break now
LOL!! Quack me up!!
AEOB
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