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To: John Koligman who wrote (70302)	10/27/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

RESEARCH ALERT - Morgan Stanley cautious on IBM NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter reiterated its neutral/cautious stance on International Business Machines Corp. <IBM.N>. -- Analyst Thomas Kraemer was not immediately available to comment. -- Shares were off 1-1/8 at 94-3/8 in the opening minutes of New York Stock Exchange trade Wednesday. ((-- Wall Street Desk, 212-859-1731)) REUTERS

To: John Koligman who wrote (70302)	10/27/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Windseye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

John, I would imagine that converting proprietarily developed software to run on any comp other than SUNW would be a major headache... is this a major consideration? Does IBM run SUN's OS, or does the source compile cleaning on IBM's Unix? What kind of conversion issues face them moving to CPQ? Doug