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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45339)	1/26/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: HISBROTHER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

El! So what do you think? Think its going to go up again tomorrow after earnings or is it going to take a hit like Lucent and Intel did even though they announced good earnings?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45339)	1/26/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Nadine, RE:"Why should Compaq give any shares of AV to its shareholders if it can find a horde of crazy people (ahem, excuse me, "investors") who are willing to pay far more than they are worth? Compaq will just take the money and run." because the shareholders own the company.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45339)	1/26/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 97611

What CPQ is ultimately going to do with AV is still an unknown. For CPQ to spin-off all or most of AV to its shareholders would tell me that CPQ does not need the money [an IPO would bring] but does not want to deal with AV because it is too much a digression from its core businesses. In a situation where CPQ does sell shares of AV through an IPO, CPQ itself would not be laughing all the way to the bank because in these crazy IPO offerings, it is the traders who quickly get in and out who make the bucks. Once a company's shares to be sold via an IPO are gone, at the opening price, that's it. So if AV would open at 6 and close at 32, CPQ is not big-time in the money. Lynn