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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (64940)	10/10/2003 9:30:16 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 77400

OT ... Lizzie, re "I didn't know JNPR expensed options but if they do... doesn't 2 million seem a little low?" Juniper Networks doesn't expense options, as you suspect. They are amortizing deferred stock compensation, mostly from their Dec 2001 acquisition of Pacific Broadband, I believe. Remember, only grants of fixed stock options to employees are not expensed .. today. *All other stock-based compensation* -- grants of fixed stock options to non-employees, variable stock options to anybody, nonvested stock to anybody, restricted stock to anybody, and stock appreciation rights to anybody -- *is expensed .. today*. (If this is wrong, somebody please advise. John? Huey?) That's makes the special treatment of fixed ESOs ludicrous, IMO. Ron