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To: Maxer who wrote (18556)	2/28/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: WTSherman	Respond to of 97611

<<You might look at CPQ takeover of Tandem last year. Your comment suggests that you are long on philosophy (which is ok) but short on facts. >> Max, I may be short on facts, that was why I asked...but, I don't put the Tandem acquisition in the same category at all. CPQ and Digital are almost the same size and coming from radically different backgrounds(as well as being geographically distant). If my recollection is correct CPQ was many times the size of Tandem. More relevant to me is the history of other merger/acquisitions that took a long time before they paid off(if ever).