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To: Richard Habib who wrote (16272)	8/5/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

<<IBM was thinking of buying Sun. Anyone have any clue of why that might have something to do with Apple.>> Sun's Sparq and Solaris stations are high-end niche products for graphics and internet stuff. This is a niche that overlaps into Apple's G3 machines that some speculate the G3 can dominate. If IBM buys and supports Sun's technology, perhaps enhancing it with G3 technology, this could take away income that Apple was poised to get with future high-end G3 development. That's my take on it. This may mean that IBM is drifting away from Apple as a PowerPC partner. However, I do not see any real evidence to this. -Bill_H

To: Richard Habib who wrote (16272)	8/5/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

"Just speculating but based on Apple's past performance during this latest mess, today seems anomalous to me." Well, I feel the market makes its own course based on Apple's recent performance in the last three quarters as well as the coming ones. Majority of analysts blamed recent overall market retreat on second half '98's nets, for which Apple should be one of the safest bets in the high tech group. Something is brewing but probably not IBM/Sun merger. It could be something to do with iMac sales. Phil