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To: hossein hosseini who wrote (3024)	3/7/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: pass pass	Respond to of 3276

Maybe DELL will give DEC a better deal, just as WCOM did to MCI. This coming month or maybe even into summer and fall, the tech market will be scarier than ever. But if DEC is dragged down to $44, this means you can buy CPQ (if the deal is still good) at ($44-$30 cash)/0.945=$14.8/CPQ share. This means with CPQ reduced '98 earning at $1.8/share, CPQ could have a P/E of 8.2, which means CPQ is priced cheaper than the oil drilling companies (my current favorite).

To: hossein hosseini who wrote (3024)	3/7/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: KAD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3276

Hosseini: Couple of questions: 1. If (rather when as I believe it will go thru) the deal does go thru what happens to those 2000leaps. Do they not just stay active as DEC leaps or do they get converted somehow to CPQ leaps. And at some point do not all leaps become basic options when the time frame is 6 mos or less. 2. Do you know a good site (preferably free) for Options quotes that cover the whole panorama, including leaps, just by the Stock symbol. Lombard used to but when they were bought out they don't any more. Thanks .. you have some good ideas here worth looking at. KAD