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To: mike fredricks who wrote (3589)	11/12/1997 2:25:00 PM
From: ilan saadia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Anyone know why we are down so much?

To: mike fredricks who wrote (3589)	11/12/1997 2:41:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Mike: If you look up the ORCL's 10-K & 10Q filings, & read their accompaning news release on quarterly results, you should be able to get an idea, roughly, how ORCL's revenues break down by region. As far as currency risk, a prudent CFO of any company doing measureable business overseas will engage in some system of hedging strategies offset (hopefully) currency fluctuations & provide some degree of predictability to revenues generated overseas. I'm sure a company such as ORCL has some system of hedging strategies in place, but they are never foolproof; they usually serve to "lessen the damage."