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To: D.Austin who wrote (40)	11/27/2000 10:09:30 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61

Mandel argues that VC capital will drop significantly. Bad news for start ups but good news for existing companies with good biz models and enough funding. They will have less competition for their products, services and investment capital.

To: D.Austin who wrote (40)	11/27/2000 11:02:16 PM
From: architect*	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61

>"When the economy and the stockmarket slide, so does the funding for innovative new businesses - and not by a small amount. A 50 per cent fall today would send investment funding plunging from roughly $US50 billion in 1999 to $US25 billion or less."< JDSU alone invested $US59 billion in 2000 JDS Uniphase SDL Inc. $41 billion Jul 00 JDS Uniphase E-TEK Dynamics $15 billion Jan 00 It's nothing these days for Alcatel Marconi Nortel Lucent Cisco or Intel to spend several billion in the acquisition of a start up company. here is a copy of the billion dollar acquistion/merger club and this is just for the communications industry. There is lots of investment capital flowing into "next generation communication technology convergedigest.com JDS Uniphase SDL Inc. $41 billion Jul 00 Lucent Technologies Ascend Communications $20 billion Jan 99 JDS Uniphase E-TEK Dynamics $15 billion Jan 00 Nortel Networks Bay Networks $9.1 billion Jun 98 Nortel Networks Alteon WebSystems $7.8 billion Jul 00 Alcatel Newbridge Networks $7.1 billion Feb 00 Cisco Systems Cerent Corp. $6.9 billion Aug 99 Cisco Systems ArrowPoint Communications $5.7 billion May 00 Lucent Technologies Chromatis Networks $4.5 billion May 00 GEC/Marconi FORE Systems $4.5 billion April 99 AMCC MMC Networks $4.5 billion Aug 00 Alcatel DSC Communications $4.4 billion Jun 98 Cisco Systems StrataCom $4 billion Apr 96 Nortel Networks Xros $3.25 billion Mar 00 Lucent Technologies Ortel $2.95 billion Feb 00 Sycamore Networks Sirocco Systems $2.9 billion June 00 JDS Uniphase Optical Coating Laboratories $2.8 billion Nov 99 PMC-Sierra Quantum Effect Devices $2.3 billion Jul 00 Intel Level One Communications $2.2 billion Mar 99 GEC/Marconi RELTEC $2.1 billion Mar 99 Nortel Networks Clarify Inc $2.1 billion Oct 99 Cisco Systems Pirelli Optical Systems up to $2.15 billion Dec 99 Broadcom SiByte $2.04 billion Nov 00 Cisco Systems GeoTel Communications $2 billion Apr 99 Alcatel Xylan $2 billion Mar 99 Corning NetOptix $2 billion Feb 00 SDL Photonic Integration Research $1.8 billion May 00 Lucent Technologies Excel Switching Corp. $1.7 billion Aug 99 Intel DSP Communications $1.6 billion Oct 99 Spirent Hekimian Laboratories $1.6 billion Nov 00 Alcatel Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories $1.5 billion Sep 99 Nortel Networks CoreTek $1.43 billion Mar 00 Lucent Technologies SpringTide Networks $1.3 billion Jul 00 Intel GIGA A/S $1.25 billion Mar 00 Broadcom New Port Communications $1.4 billion Aug 00 Broadcom Silicon Spice $1.2 billion Aug 00