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Technology Stocks : 3Com Corporation (COMS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (22288)	9/25/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

JFD, If INTC is considering buying COMS, I don't it would do so just because of NICs. It's very obvious the two have lots of stuff that don't overlap, so INTC would have to sell off parts of COMS to another. This is too involved, to much trouble. Much better to just partner with INTC. Remember, big acquisitions are a no-no, as lots have learned the hard way. It's also harder now that stock prices are roughly 50% of what they use to be. Sure companies are cheaper to buy, but they can't use their own stocks to buy (which is the best way), and don't want to use cash.