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To: James M. Bash who wrote (3388)	10/31/1997 12:07:00 PM
From: Will Cunningham	Respond to of 14451

Interesting article on SGI: msnbc.com

To: James M. Bash who wrote (3388)	10/31/1997 12:14:00 PM
From: kormac	Respond to of 14451

Hello fellow shereholders. I still believe that SGI is going to be bought. The fact that Ed said in his press release that SGI is not for sale is something he must say if the negotiations are not complete. The rumor in the SF papers was that IBM would the buyer. This morning I heard from somebody at Fido that HP is talking to SGI right now. Don't put much credence to this however, since the rumors are natural outgrowth of the turmoil at SGI. There are only so many possible companies that could buy SGI and HP is certainly a strong candidate. I do not buy stock because a company might be a take-over candidate. I use SGI computers and believe in their products. Have been doing so since 1990. One reason that my deparment started to buy SGI's was that it seemed that SGI develops great technology in the high margin products and systematically brings it to low end products. The Cray purchase was in my view part of this strategy. Best regards, Seppo

To: James M. Bash who wrote (3388)	10/31/1997 12:34:00 PM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Easier said than done. Laying off is a hit and miss business. If a company is lucky or unlucky (depending on point of view) enough to have more deadwoods than the number to cut, it's a slamdunk. It's much tougher when the number pushes a company to look into the people who are between extremely productive and utterly useless. This is where politics become an issue and usually unpopular people however relatively productive are pushed out. That is also where morale starts getting hurt since the remaining people begin to wonder about the basis for those decisions. -Al