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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (77487)	2/4/2000 7:01:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 97611

RE:"Jim, it isn't really a question of whether they could figure it out or not...it's a question of was it a good time to do it or could they get more at that point using it as leverage for other things. The reality is that spinning it off would have gotten them little at the time. "... All I know that CPQs stock ran up to 51 on anticipation of shareholders getting some AV in a spin off. After CPQ dorked around the stock had no underlying support and fell out of bed, just look at the time line and the charts. CPQ did a pathetic job of supporting shareholder value. As far as I'm concerned, AV is still a premier portal and was more so back when Compaq could have spun it off. All you need to do is look back at the IPO/merger action of search engines during that time, They were climbing in a big way. An AV IPO at that time would have been through the roof... Jim Jim