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To: Alan Buckley who wrote (35583)12/16/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: XiaoYao  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Excellent analysis. Holding cash is holding a lot of power and options, it also gives you the security when anything really bad happened.



To: Alan Buckley who wrote (35583)12/16/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Valley Girl  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
Re. MSFT cash, also re. Be/Linux:

Good points. Certainly I'm not in a position to judge how much they need to operate. But they've had a massive amount of excess cash on hand for as long as I can remember.

To all: you might be interested in a rumor in the OS arena:
marketwatch.newsalert.com