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To: JOE 6PACK who wrote (3154)	3/6/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8358

Joe, had a couple too many six packs recently?? CPQ is going to be totally absorbed with the DEC acquisition for the next 12-24 months. I can't imagine that they they would even consider another acq/merger, no less one that's in a market as removed from their mainstream as CS's is. The DEC acquisition is the largest ever attempted in the computer industry, its going to take all of CPQ's management talent to have a chance of making this payback for shareholders and there are lots and lots of sceptics who think that it won't pay back. Getting diverted from this is the last thing that CPQ would do.