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To: olivier asser who wrote (954)2/11/2005 7:53:43 PM
From: djia101362  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15857
 
But you're assuming they want out of the spotlight, I don't believe that to be the case. They like the spotlight and any company that can stick a thorn in MSFT will do it. Right now GOOG and AAPL are stealing a lot of MSFT's thunder and that may be something that will not change from hear on out.

If they wanted out of the spotlight they would have split shares before going public to IPO at a lower stock price. It is the high absolute stock price that is attracting a lot of attention to GOOG and they're policy that they have no intention of splitting the stock...ala Berkshire Hathaway.



To: olivier asser who wrote (954)2/11/2005 7:57:49 PM
From: djia101362  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15857
 
I'm not sure if you follow MSFT but in late 2003 before MSFT started expensing stock options they gave the employees a chance to cash in and had a arrangement with JPM whereby JPM bought the shares and did some options thing to offset risk. You probably understand that stuff much better than I do but I wouldn't be surprised if something like that is in place for GOOG.


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