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To: Night Writer who wrote (77796)	2/9/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

NW... as I said here a month ago, I don't know how CPQ is going to be able to earn .17 in Q1, when all they could get last Q, the busiest Q of the year, was .16. That .17 consensus will have to include proceeds from the sale of assets. How much, I don't know, but I'd be surprised if they could get .14 of that .17 thru actual earnings based on revs and profits from sales of their products and services. Someone said that Q1 is backend loaded. My guess is that the entire year is backend loaded and that Q1 ain't gonna be pretty. With Jan. out of the way, perhaps others are seeing it the same way. El