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Technology Stocks : ADSP - Ariel -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Perry who wrote (1184)	3/13/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: answer man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2263

One has to wonder what is wrong with Ariel's ADSL product. From a previous post we saw an excerpt from a SEC filing that referenced getting a "minimum of $5M" for the product and development team yet Cisco has paid $120M for Dagaz (1997) and $236M for Netspeed (1998). Granted, Netspeed is much larger and has a contract with U S West but Dagaz was roughly the same size as Ariel and had yet to produce a product. Ariel management has claimed to have several interested parties in the past, what did they discover about the ADSL product to make them pass on it at such a bargain basement price? I wonder if the ADSL team has left, it must be de-motivating to work for a company that has been trying to sell you for 18 months now.