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I think this is the beginning of the second wave, more niche-oriented acquisitions, ... This is more geographic in structure, with two French companies coming together. I think you'll see a lot of smaller companies biting off the pieces that drop out of these super-majors.

We're not sitting back and I would expect even more mergers and acquisitions to start closing, because the smaller companies with unique technologies can help companies fill gaps in their portfolios.

Ken Fitzpatrick

This is probably the beginning or continuance of a wave of acquisitions in the exploration and production industry, ... These companies are flush with cash and have record highs on their stock values, which puts them in an excellent position to acquire additional reserves.

Many exploration projects require a gold price of $350 or higher to be profitable, and I believe that larger companies will look to grow through acquisitions of other smaller companies which are making money, have mines, and ongoing projects. The trend will continue.

Amaury de Barros Conti

In all new markets that have high growth potential, there are new companies that start. Of course at the end, there will be less than the beginning. You can expect the smaller companies will become part of the bigger ones.

Smaller companies tend to just put workers out there. You have so many new people coming in and out of this trade and many companies don't train you.

There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.

I don't see how a lot of these smaller niche vendors are going to survive. They're going to have to be swallowed up by the bigger companies in the food chain.

Their smaller size gives them less diversification, less geographic spread. So you have a little bit more risk with them. Those companies are about $16 billion market cap companies, whereas BP Amoco is a $200 billion company. So you can compare BP Amoco to a GE in terms of its size and diversification.

The general pattern is that big companies let the other companies do the innovations for them. Smaller companies can do innovation in a more agile fashion outside the boundaries of a large company, and they get acquired.

Stephen O'Grady

For the most part, companies are ready, ... But there are smaller companies and companies outside of the U.S. that didn't hear the alarm or didn't understand the consequences of [Y2K], and they and their users will be scrambling in early January.

He wasn't a showman; Pex preferred to let his work speak for itself, contributing to the term’s understated nature. There's a large number of acquisitions of companies or mergers [happening], with most generated from [pharmaceutical] companies.

Richard Kollender

[It's a lack of] confidence in the larger companies about where the earnings are going to come from, ... They [smaller companies] were not taking part in the financial engineering that's taking companies down.

This recent wave of merger news provides some of the strongest evidence yet that companies are willing to do some long-term planning. The kind of deals getting announced not just bolt-on acquisitions but transformational deals,

Either the smaller and mid-cap companies start to catch up or the larger cap companies will come down to meet them. It's one of those two, ... We're obviously hoping that it's the smaller and mid-cap companies that start to catch up.

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