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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (17016)	2/7/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: HoodBuilder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Berkshire is North of $54,000/share

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (17016)	2/7/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Luc Glinas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

He! How could you say that the price stock is not important??

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (17016)	2/7/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Jim and thread, The following is from today's Barron on the merger of CPQ/DEC. He calculates, breathing rather heavily, that with all the aforegoing and after "liberating the cash sloshing around in DEC's balance sheet," the cost of the acquisition will be slashed from the aforementioned $9.5 billion to a piddly $3.5 billion. Which would be, he reckons, something less than four times DEC's cash flow next year. If so -- and the operative word is "if" -- who can quarrel? The deal really is a Ibcxx