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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m amazed they managed to keep this for a secret for so long when you compare the news about TransACT being leaked a week or 2 before it actually happened and the scale of this acquisition compared to TransACT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>$105 million in shares seems awfully cheap to me too. That’s one New Years lotto win away from buying them ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>iiNet are going to be massive, huge news. Good Christmas present for Zdnet, itnews etc journos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Futura Hv","sans-serif";color:#221E1F'>Mathew Graham</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Futura Bk","sans-serif";color:#221E1F'><br>Technology Consultant (Network Services)<br>APJ Network Delivery Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Futura Bk","sans-serif";color:#221E1F'>Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Futura Bk","sans-serif";color:#221E1F'>+61 2 621 66819 / Office Tel<br>+61 405 533 948 / Mobile Tel <br>mathew.graham@hp.com / Email <br>Ground Floor, 40 Cameron Avenue <br>Belconnen, ACT, 2617<br>Australia<br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Skeeve Stevens<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 December 2011 4:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Scott Howard; ausnog@ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] iiNet to Acquire Internode<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'>Holy Cow! This is huge!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'>I wonder what it means for Internode - the brand, their awesome projects like IPv6 and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>...Skeeve<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>--</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Skeeve Stevens, CEO - eintellego Pty Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellego.net">skeeve@eintellego.net</a> ; www.eintellego.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; <a href="skype://skeeve">skype://skeeve</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>facebook.com/eintellego<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'>eintellego - The Experts Who The Experts Call<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Scott Howard <<a href="mailto:scott@doc.net.au">scott@doc.net.au</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:11:44 -0800<br><b>To: </b><<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[AusNOG] iiNet to Acquire Internode<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #B5C4DF 4.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-right:0cm' id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F'><a href="http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20111222/pdf/423gl75v07k006.pdf">http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20111222/pdf/423gl75v07k006.pdf</a><br><br> Scott<br><br>_______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list <a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a> <a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></body></html>