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To: Marie Smith who wrote (55620)	8/2/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Marie Smith	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 176387

To All: Michael is writing a book I don't think I have seen anything on the thread regarding MSD writing a book. It was in Thursday's Austin-American Statesman. It is usually Bachman's (jbn3) to report these things. Why haven't you, Bachman? MSD is writing "Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry" to be published in March. Marie

To: Marie Smith who wrote (55620)	8/3/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Jim Patterson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 176387

RE: company is simply forbidden for making gains and losses on transactions involving its own stock. Marie, I know this. My point is that DELL is buying their stock at all time high prices. If they ever need cash and do a secondary, it will have been a net drain on the cash flow statement. In a nut shell, I don't approve of what Dell did. IBM is doing the same thing and I don't approve there. Though IBM is bbetter positioned to get away with it over the long run. Jim