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To: stock bull who wrote (3083)	3/24/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: r laird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3276

i read on one of the chats that palmer will be gone with a severance pay of approx. 40mil. if it s true a nice way to screw the dec help with a sell out.

To: stock bull who wrote (3083)	3/25/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: ralf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3276

most of our customers could not believe that a company like CPQ is able to takeover DEC. The employees aren't happy with the deal, because in the past we would very proud to work for DEC, nobody can explain it but that is a fact. I could not understand that the shareholders are so quite about the deal. We all know the cash is around 30$ a share. The service division of digital is a cash cow, the products like ALPHA,VMS, Digital Unix, strongarm processor, the customer base, altavista, storageworks, all these things should have a higher price than 0,93 CPQ shares. R laird told us in note 3084 that Palmer get 40 Mil $, who must pay it ? If we look at CPQ i can only see a company selling cheap and cheaper PC and server. A market with high pressure on the margins. Perhaps i have the wrong idea of CPQ business. Is this a high-tech company ? Perhaps they are able to sell the alpha, but that is not enough. I hope the shareholders vote against this deal. Ralf