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To: mr.mark who wrote (36198)	11/13/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: JDGarza	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

What other criterion is lawful for a company to use to determine a distribution ratio? My 5 for 4 is assuming that the number of shares issued in the IPO for Palm will be 1/5 of COMS outstanding shares at a given date. So if they use 1/2 the number of outstanding shares of coms on 1/1/2000 that represents 20% of Palms. Let's say coms has 300,000,000 on that date. Half would be 150mil. and 20% of that would be 30 million shares issued at the IPO for PALMS. Then I would expect that coms share holders on given date will issued Palm shares at a ratio of 2.5 COMS shares for every 2 PALMS. Is my view to naive for the real world????