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Technology Stocks : Alcatel (ALA) and France -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (1494)	3/18/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: renard fox	Respond to of 3891

To all. Re French companies divesting businesses via IPO's. Look at Rhone Poulenc for example, which spun off its chemical division into a separate corporation and subsequently merged its life sciences business with German Hoechst's Roussell Uclaf I believe. So no problem with splitting of a business into a separate company in France. The only obstacles are the bloody unions who want to make sure companies have plenty of unneeded employees who do as little as possible during a 35 hour work (?) week. (Sorry, I worked for 23 years for a a US sub of a major French corporation and a know all about these strange people. As they say, the only problem with the French is that they are sooooooooooooooooooo French). RF

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (1494)	3/18/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: larry pollock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

ZO, here are statements of fact for the week ended 3/17/2000: Alcatel closed at 43 3/8, down 5 5/16 for the week; Newbridge closed at 31 15/16, down 3 1/4 for the week. As you are not an insider of either Alcatel or Newbridge, your statements guessing about Alcatel's possible future actions represent your own opinion, speculation. Again, you are not an insider. Anything that Alcatel does in the future that happens to coincide with your statements is purely coincidental, nothing more.