From:	Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com
Subject:	Decipher + FASA
Date:	Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:04:03 EDT

In a message dated 7/24/99 8:35:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
timburke@*******.com.au writes:

> Lets not get ahead of ourselves here.
> 1) It is NOT a merger, it's a buyout.
> These are two separate things with big
> differences.
well, the extent of the "buyout" is not known right now. Perhaps the FASACorp
is purchased by Decipher, and the cost includes stock (assuming stock
available, or % etc. ) in Decipher for the FASA heads?
As I said on an AOL board, it seems strange to me that FASA would take the
time and money to get Ral Partha and go through with the MS deal, then sell
to Decipher unless;
1) They were seriously in the hole money-wise and had to
2) The new parent corp opened up more opportunities for FASA as a whole.
3) The owners of FASA got offered such an excessive amount of money, they had
to take it and run.