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

To: James A. Venooker who wrote (55480)	10/7/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Jamie, I've been out for a while, but it intrigues me to see that folks here are still speculating on a buy-out/merger. Let's face it, it's not going to happen in this market...it's just not. As for your mentioned suitors, INTC: ASND business is too orthoginal. INTC wouldn't know what to do with ASND. CICO: could do it, but it would be to buy the SP market which they very much want to own. So, that's a possibility. Synergies would be a problem and Mory wants more than CISCO would spend. LU, pooling helps not. Stock is trading way off and they won't touch their stock to acquire a company at this juncture. ERICY, ALA are possibilities as is NOKIA. But, in the short term...no one will buy ASND. ASND is on thier own and it's a good thing that Mory has operated as such. Don't expect anything to happen until the market recovers at least 50% of it's losses. OG