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To: Richie who wrote (45031)	1/25/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: dav	Respond to of 97611

Home - Yahoo! - Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Travel - book airline tickets, hotel rooms, cruises, rental cars [ Business \| US Market \| By Industry \| IPO \| AP \| S&P \| International \| PRNews \| BizWire ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related Quotes CPQ 46 11/16 +1/2 delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Monday January 25, 5:14 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Compaq Computer Corporation Schedules News Conference at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 26th --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Compaq Computer Corporation will hold a news conference from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., EST, Tues., Jan. 26, to announce the company's Internet strategy for AltaVista. Eckhard Pfeiffer, Compaq President and Chief Executive Officer, will be joined by Rod Schrock, Compaq Senior Vice President, Consumer Products Group, to make the announcement, which will be followed by a question and answer session. Members of the media and analyst communities are invited to remain for lunch, which will be served starting at 11:00 a.m. The conference will be held at The Equitable Building, 787 Seventh Avenue in New York City. WHAT: Compaq News Conference WHO: -- Eckhard Pfeiffer, President & CEO, Compaq Computer Corporation -- Rod Schrock, Sr. VP, Consumer Products Group, Compaq Computer Corporation WHEN: 9:45 a.m. Tues., Jan. 26, 1999 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Press Conference 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Q & A 11:00 a.m. to Noon Lunch WHERE: The Equitable Building Tower Room, 50th floor -- New York City 787 Seventh Avenue New York, NY R.S.V.P. 212/554-8192 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: 212/554-8192 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Quotes and News: Compaq Computer Corp (NYSE:CPQ - news) Related News Categories: computer hardware, computers, internet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved. All the news releases provided by Business Wire are copyrighted. Any forms of copying other than an individual user's personal reference without express written permission is prohibited. Further distribution of these materials is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to, posting, emailing, faxing, archiving ina public database, redistributing via a computer network or in a printed form. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?

To: Richie who wrote (45031)	1/25/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Richie, Michael and others: I said that upgrades could only be "incremental" i.e from a hold, to a buy (and very few of them), from a buy to a strong buy: or that earnings estimates would be upgraded. Still it would be good to have a chorus of approval. What "concerns" me about the announcement is that it does not mention any other company as partner to the announcement. Mergers, buy-outs or that sort of thing, require both parties to be present at the press conference. So it does look like a made-in-Compaq strategy session rather than a deal - but who knows? It doesn't concern me about the timing. So when would they do it? Hopefully not on the same morning they announce earnings. To try to keep it under wraps would not succeed. So get it out as soon as possible. Michael, last 4th Quarter was 0.42 It is amazing that we are all getting excited about 0.39-44. Not only has CPQ had a whole year to improve on 0.42 but it has the accretive revenues from DEC to add. If they can do it with the bookeeping, (hope jim kelley is not listening) I would try to beat 0.42 for a good headline if I were CPQ.