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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mysore_han who wrote (50778)	7/30/1998 1:53:00 PM
From: djane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

More from Bucky89 (Yahoo thread) dismissing SRA rumor Message 18777 of 18785 Reply Geek bucky89 Jul 30 1998 12:35PM EDT If I were an ASND customer needing a server to support SS7, I'd say give me the HP box. Don't give me that Stratus crap. If I were a carrier, I wouldn't play around with 2nd-tier hardware. Just give me HP--I know what I'm getting there. Only a few $k bucks extra. No big deal. I think Ascend management knows this very well. They don't need Stratus. bucky89 ______________________________________________________________ Message 18784 of 18785 Reply Bloomberg bucky89 Jul 30 1998 1:31PM EDT >>Bloomberg TV is talking about ASND buying Stratus all morning. yea, and I believe Advanced Fibre (AFCI) was hyped by the media too. And it turned out there was absolutely nothing behind the rumor. I bet you it's HWP or SUNW who's in talks to buy SRA. But the manipulators have a short position in ASND that they desperately want out of. And so, they're trying to use this to their advantage. This is complete horsecrap. Telecom providers are extremely conservative and risk-averse. There is no way they would buy servers from other than a first-tier name-brand company (IBM/SUNW/HWP). Why in the world would ASND want SRA??? bucky89