To: Red Scouser who wrote (37 ) 9/20/2000 4:13:40 PM From: Dealer Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 104160 Hiya Red! So did ya win yaself a bunch of money over the weekend?? Liked the picture you posted here last nite. Kewl! JDSU looks good to me........some pretty good news on it even today. Just posted some on the porch as to their pending buy out of SDLI. Here it is decided to bring it over; JDSU looks good to me........Just posted some on the porch as to their pending buy out of SDLI. Here it is I brought it over. Wait and see I guess; JDS Uniphase riding bandwidth By Mike Tarsala, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:44 PM ET Sep 20, 2000 NewsWatch Latest headlines JDS Uniphase riding bandwidth SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Jozef Straus, JDS Uniphase's chief executive, gave some assurances Wednesday to investors in sagging optical networking issues. "We feel the explosion of bandwidth is going to continue unabated," Straus said at the Banc of America securities investment conference in San Francisco. JDS Uniphase (JDSU: news, msgs) executives also gave an update of the company's planned acquisition of SDL (SDLI: news, msgs), announced in July. The company is in the midst of inquiries by the Department of Justice. The company can't say at this point if it will have to make any concessions to regulators concerning the deal. The acquisition is expected to close in December. JDS Uniphase will exchange 3.8 of its shares for each SDL share in a deal initially valued at more than $40 billion. Also, JDS Uniphase executives said the company is making cost cutting moves by installing Oracle's human resources software. The company expects to have completed the installation by by July 2001 Luvya, deala