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To: Voltaire who wrote (21988)	6/9/2000 10:34:00 AM
From: Venkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

I agree...big bucks on the sidelines...we are ready to explode...the head faking is getting to be Bullshi^^^. I TOOK OFF WORK TODAY TO TRADE TSTN...I ALSO LIKE CNXT AT THIS PRICE...MAY HV TO ADD TO MY POSITION AND PUT SOME IN THE FAMILY ACCT. Semis upgraded today and when the selling into the rally stops then the naz will move higher....probably this afternoon.

To: Voltaire who wrote (21988)	6/9/2000 10:49:00 AM
From: Detail-MD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

Tom, I am into the SNDK calls this morning. Thanks. PS-What's up with ELON's OBV lately? Seems like some distribution. Still one of your favs over the next month or two? You ever get your MX-20 or other?

To: Voltaire who wrote (21988)	6/9/2000 11:51:00 AM
From: Jill	Respond to of 35685

Volty, SNDK earnings are July 20

To: Voltaire who wrote (21988)	6/9/2000 11:58:00 AM
From: seahorse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Voltaire, Do you still own RNWK? If so, what are your current thoughts? tia seahorse

To: Voltaire who wrote (21988)	6/9/2000 3:55:00 PM
From: Manx	Respond to of 35685

"...acquisition of Stanford University for $100 billion in Cisco stock."!!!!!!!! Satire: What next? by David Bunnell June 09, 2000 In a move that guarantees his company will never run short of qualified technology workers, Cisco Systems (CSCO) CEO John Chambers will soon announce the acquisition of Stanford University for $100 billion in Cisco stock. This stunning deal, which will change the face of American academia for decades to come, was made possible when Stanford recently promoted John Hennessy, the dean of its School of Engineering, to the position of president. No stranger to the sometimes-blurry relationship between universities and high-tech companies, Hennessy in 1981 initiated the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) technology project at the university, and then during a sabbatical in 1984-85 he co-founded a company called MIPS Computer System that produced microprocessors based on this same technology. MIPS was later sold to another Stanford spinout, Sun Microsystems (SUNW), which made Hennessy very wealthy. Don't panic While the Cisco deal has yet to be made public, I have learned that Hennessy has already sought to reassure nervous Stanford faculty members that the university will maintain its high academic standards. According to one of my sources, he has also reassured the faculty that no one will lose his or her job as a result of being merged into the world's biggest "Internet plumbing company." "Cisco has never laid off anyone," Hennessy says, "and since all our professors will get Cisco stock options, I expect the vast majority will want to stay here for many years to come. In fact, Stanford will have more millionaires on its staff than all the other universities put together. I expect to be flooded with applications from old-economy universities like Harvard and Yale." Barbara Beck, Cisco's senior vice president of human resources, backed up Hennessy's statements with the observation that, while Cisco has never employed such a large group of professors, she is "totally, like totally confident that the cultures of the two organizations are totally compatible." Chambers, who recently visited the campus, admitted that the price of $100 billion was a bit on the high side but observed that it was in stock that he called "grossly overvalued Cisco dollars." UpsideToday has learned that Chambers plans to offer free tuition to computer science and engineering students who agree to work for life at Cisco following graduation. Plans are also under way to extend this program to MBA students. "We need people in our marketing and accounting departments as well as technologists," Chambers says. The company has no plans to change the curriculum. "We'll still have art and music and, of course, football," adds Hennessy, who will become Cisco's vice president of universities. On the playing field On a lighter note, there is discussion under way to change the name of the school to "Cisco Stanford University" and rename the sports teams from the "Cardinals" to the "Routers." Stanford football director Tyrone Willingham says that the new name is "very appropriate, because we pass the ball more than any other college team." Industry analysts who I've talked to believe that the acquisition is a natural fit and will enhance Cisco's stock value even more. David Readerman of Thomas Weisel Partners was particularly enthusiastic. "What you get out of this is a smarter Cisco and a better-connected Stanford," he says. Assuming this deal goes through and works out, other companies will be lining up to acquire universities. A Microsoft (MSFT) acquisition of the University of Washington would be a natural, as would an Apple (APPL) acquisition of University of California at Berkeley. It's a whole new era for education, that's for sure. Editor's disclaimer: David Bunnell likes to write but doesn't have the time to actually do any real reporting, so he simply makes up his articles and then forces the staff to run them. Nothing in the above piece is true, except in his mind. URL: upside.com