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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (15126)	9/27/2000 7:10:47 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

I agree it is very sad to see an American Institution like Kodak to go down this way, with a tragic arrogance that the photo-chemical film business will last forever. Kodak should re-invent its mindset to not be a photo-chemical company, but an Imaging company. Such a company would do whatever it takes to be a player in this New Paradigm and offer extremely competitive products and solutions for the entire Imaging Business. This means extending the business to include electronics and semiconductor R&D. Geee... this sounds like a company I know...Fuji, perhaps? Fuji has it all- great digital cameras, CCD research, digital processing....AND photochemical. It is going to be sad when Fuji makes an offer to buy out Kodak a couple years down the road for a couple bucks per share. If Kodak doesn't change and change soon, I bet we will see Kodak under Japanese ownership before this decade is over. A move that could show Kodak means business is to acquire technology to insure a place in digital photography..Kodak could OWN this technology if they bought Sandisk...

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (15126)	9/27/2000 7:21:39 PM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Art, I was just at Best Buy this week to buy a digital camera, and I spent a lot of time talking to the guys there about cameras, flash, etc. I found out the following: - Digital is it. I didn't need them to tell me. The film camera section did not have a single browser. I had to elbow in just to see the digital stuff. - Kodak is an afterthought, at least there. The only negative I saw for Sandisk was the employees were modestly in favor of Sony products, which I must admit are my favorite consumer electronic products in general. They are also price competitive in dig cameras, whereas they are often at a premium in other areas. - They are flat out of flash memory cards. All they had were a few 16Mb SmartMedia cards(Sandisk) and one 128Mb CF Sandisk card, which they joked about never having sold. Cooters PS Still looking for an answer to the compatibility between MMC and CF cards.