CHEYENNE SOFTWARE INC
8-K, 1996-04-30
COMPUTERS & PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE
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                                 UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C.  20549


                                    FORM 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT
                    PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE 
                        SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


    Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  April 30, 1996


                          CHEYENNE SOFTWARE, INC.                        
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


         DELAWARE                 1-9189                  13-3175893     
     (State or Other            (Commission              (IRS Employer
     jurisdiction of            File Number)          Identification No.)
      incorporation)


      3 Expressway Plaza, Roslyn Heights, NY                     11577   
    (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)


    Registrant's telephone number, including area code   (516) 465-4000   

























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         ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.

                   On April 30, 1996, the Company mailed to its
         shareholders the two letters attached hereto as Exhibit 20.1
         and Exhibit 20.2, respectively, both of which are hereby
         incorporated herein by reference.


         ITEM 7.   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

              (c)  Exhibits.

              20.1   Letter to shareholders of the Company dated April
                     24, 1996.

              20.2   Letter to shareholders of the Company dated April
                     26, 1996.







































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                                   SIGNATURE



                   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
         Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this
         report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
         duly authorized.


                                      CHEYENNE SOFTWARE, INC.


         Date April 30, 1996          /s/ ReiJane Huai              
                                      Name:  ReiJane Huai
                                      Title:  President and Chief
                                              Executive Officer







































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                                  EXHIBIT LIST

         20.1  Letter to shareholders of the Company dated April 24,
               1996.

         20.2  Letter to shareholders of the Company dated April 26,
               1996.


                                                            EXHIBIT 20.1

                       [CHEYENNE SOFTWARE, INC. LETTERHEAD]



                                                          April 24, 1996

         Dear Fellow Cheyenne Shareholder:

         In light of recent events, I want to share with you this update
         on the state of the Company, and on what we are doing to
         achieve our primary objective:  building the value of Cheyenne
         for you.

         Despite a tough third quarter, and despite the misinformation
         currently being spread by an opportunistic, unsolicited suitor
         seeking to take advantage of it, Cheyenne is financially,
         strategically, technologically and operationally strong.  We
         believe we are well-positioned to continue to build the value
         of Cheyenne for our shareholders, customers, business partners
         and employees.  And the Board of Directors and management of
         Cheyenne are 100 percent united in our commitment and
         determination to do so.

         Let me describe the basis for our confidence in the Company and
         its prospects.

         Financial Strength
         Largely based on the strength of our strategy, technology, and
         product offerings, and despite the hiccup we experienced last
         quarter, our financial performance over the past decade has
         been very strong.  For example, our annual revenue grew from $8
         million in 1991 to $128 million in 1995, and our annual net
         income has grown from $2 million to $38.5 million over the same
         period.  We have achieved this growth with no debt, and we
         currently have more than $76 million of cash on hand, an
         increase of about $6.5 million from the previous quarter.

         Pre-tax operating margins are expected to be approximately 25%
         before one-time charges for the year ending June 30, 1996.
         This performance is near the top for software companies.  We
         intend to push for even higher margins and expect that the
         shift to fee-based technical support currently under way will
         substantially increase margins in the latter half of fiscal
         year 1997.  We believe, in short, that we are well-positioned
         for future growth, with many new and innovative products for
         Windows NT, Windows 95, NetWare and UNIX, among other
         platforms.

         Market Leader
         We do not just claim to be, but are universally recognized as,
         the world's leading provider of network backup and recovery
         software, with more than one-third of that $410 million market
         --a market industry analysts expect to double in size over the
         next three years.  We have a broad range of well-established,
         innovative storage management solutions in such areas as






         network backup, disaster recovery, on-line backup of relational
         databases and groupware applications, as well as Internet-based
         solutions.  We are confident of our ability to build upon our
         strength in four key platforms:  Microsoft Windows NT, Windows
         95, Novell NetWare, and UNIX.

         -   Windows NT and Windows 95
             Revenues related to Windows NT products grew 66% to $8.3
             million in the third quarter from $5.0 million in the
             second quarter.  Unit shipments of ARCserve and InocuLAN
             grew 80% and 100%, respectively, on a sequential basis.  We
             are gaining market share rapidly in the backup and anti-
             virus segments based on our excellence in product quality
             and our channel strategy.

             In the desktop arena, Cheyenne is planning additional 32-
             bit Windows products, including an extensive line of
             backup, anti-virus, storage management, and communications
             utilities for Windows 95 and Windows NT that will be
             unveiled later this quarter, along with some very exciting
             new strategic alliances.

         -   NetWare
             We are actively committed to Novell NetWare customers and
             are seeing strong sales growth for our various NetWare
             offerings.  ARCserve 6.0 for NetWare addresses a market in
             which we have an estimated 65% share and an installed base
             of more than 500,000 servers.  Importantly, the transition
             to ARCserve 6.0 is already well under way.  During the
             third quarter, sales of the newly-introduced ARCserve 6.0
             exceeded those of ARCserve 5.0.  We sold close to 40,000
             copies into our worldwide distribution channel compared to
             5,000 copies sold when the product was released at the end
             of the previous quarter.  This market acceptance should
             provide a significant opportunity for the cross-selling of
             our NetWare anti-virus and fax products.  Finally, we also
             have a number of enhanced NetWare offerings in the pipeline
             for release later this year.  For instance, we recently
             signed an agreement with Novell to integrate our anti-virus
             and fax technologies with Novell's Groupwise product and we
             will introduce a Groupwise backup option as well.

         -   UNIX
             UNIX remains a popular platform for deploying enterprise
             applications.  We are shipping and preparing additional
             products for the most popular UNIX platforms, including
             Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO Open Server, and Sun
             Solaris.  We will ship ARCserve/Open 2.2 for UNIX in the
             fourth quarter complete with agents to backup Informix,
             Sybase, Lotus Notes, and Web servers, and our engineers are
             hard at work on the next release.  The Santa Cruz Operation
             (SCO), the world's leading provider of UNIX, chose to


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             bundle ARCserve/Open with its Open Server software.  We
             expect to distribute approximately 4,000 units of this
             important new product within the next few months.

         -   Other Initiatives
             Among other new initiatives, in March 1996 we announced our
             "Application Agent Strategy" for groupware, database, and
             Web applications.  Under our innovative approach, we are
             delivering software agents that work in tandem with
             ARCserve, and that permit on-line backup of mission-
             critical groupware and on-line transaction processing
             (OLTP) applications running on Windows NT, UNIX, NetWare
             and OS/2.  Our Application Agent Strategy has been strongly
             endorsed by several industry consultants, trade
             publications and existing and potential customers, who are
             already purchasing or beta-testing many of these
             Application Agents for such groupware systems as Lotus
             Notes, cc:Mail and Microsoft Exchange Server, and such
             database systems as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase,
             Btrieve, Gupta and others.  We also previewed the
             industry's first Web server backup agent at
             NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas, which generated a lot of
             excitement among our customers, Web masters, and industry
             analysts.

         Strategic Relationships
         One of Cheyenne's often unrecognized competitive advantages is
         the number of relationships we enjoy with more than 40 of the
         world's leading technology companies, including Compaq,
         Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and
         Microsoft.  These partners license our software, integrate it
         into their own solutions, and participate with us in joint
         development and joint marketing.  Many of them sell and
         distribute Cheyenne products directly as well.  We have
         recently formed several new strategic partnerships, including,
         last month, a contract with Novell to integrate Cheyenne
         FAXserve with Novell Groupwise and partnerships with Intel and
         Symantec to integrate ARCserve with their respective network
         and systems management software.  Additionally, we have been
         working with the leaders in the "firewall" market--which refers
         to products designed to prevent unauthorized access to an
         enterprise--to enhance their data protection by providing real-
         time virus scanning capabilities.  This market will increase in
         both size and importance as increasing numbers of transactions
         are conducted and information disseminated via the Internet.
         Just yesterday, we signed a letter of intent with CheckPoint
         Software Technologies Ltd. to create the industry's first
         integrated firewall and anti-virus solution.

         The benefit of these strategic relationships is clear.  For
         example, ARCserve for Windows NT has shown impressive momentum,
         with unit shipments of that offering nearly doubling over the


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         last quarter.  Several of our partners offer widely respected
         system and network management platforms.  Cheyenne's strategy
         is to partner--not compete--with these companies.  Through
         these partnerships, Cheyenne customers are assured that our
         products are tightly integrated with market-leading management
         platforms.  In fact, we are the only data storage management
         software company that supports all major network management
         server operating systems.

         A Growing Global Company
         As for our market scope, more than 50% of Cheyenne's revenue
         now comes from outside North America, and we are aggressively
         and successfully expanding our global presence.  For example,
         in the three years since we established CSKK, our wholly owned
         Japanese subsidiary, its annual revenues have increased from
         less than $1 million in its first year to $18 million today,
         and CSKK has already achieved strong profitability.  We are the
         leading provider of storage management, anti-virus, and
         communications software in Japan, and have OEM relationships
         with virtually all of the major Japanese systems vendors,
         including Fujitsu, NEC, Mitsubishi, Toshiba and Hitachi.  And
         we recently opened offices in China and Taiwan, which join our
         existing and well-established sales and technical support
         offices in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

                                       ***

         The McAfee Proposal
         As many of you know, our Board of Directors last week
         unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal from McAfee
         Associates, Inc.  After careful consideration, the Board
         determined that the proposal was not in the best interests of
         Cheyenne's shareholders, customers, business partners or
         employees from a financial, strategic, technological, or
         operational point of view, and that it represents little more
         than an attempt by an opportunistic suitor to take advantage of
         Cheyenne's substantially undervalued stock and to deprive
         Cheyenne's shareholders and other constituents of the values to
         which they are entitled and which they were instrumental in
         creating.  Under the proposal, McAfee would have exchanged each
         Cheyenne share for 0.4783 of a share of McAfee.  Consequently,
         the value to be received by Cheyenne shareholders would not be
         $27.50 as widely reported, but rather would be dependent on the
         value of McAfee stock.

         Our Board, management, and investment bankers do not believe
         that the proposal is in your interests, for several reasons.

         First, under the McAfee proposal, McAfee shareholders would
         receive the lion's share of the combined company but would
         contribute far less to the combined entity.  Cheyenne
         shareholders would suffer significant dilution from the near-


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         doubling of McAfee's outstanding stock under its proposed
         transaction, receiving only an approximately 46% ownership
         interest in the combined entity even though Cheyenne (based on
         calendar 1995 results) would be contributing 64% of its
         revenues, 57% of its combined pre-tax income, and the
         tremendous value and earnings potential represented by our
         technological expertise, our broad and rapidly growing range of
         market-leading and innovative products, our strategic
         relationships, our international presence, and our loyal and
         dedicated employees.  Indeed, McAfee has emphasized that it
         would not enter into any transactions that was not "prima facie
         accretive" to McAfee stock, which by definition means that any
         McAfee transaction would be dilutive to Cheyenne shareholders.

         Moreover, from a strategic and operational perspective,
         McAfee's proposal raises a number of difficult questions:

         -   How solid are McAfee's growth prospects and therefore its
             valuation, given that in its core business McAfee directly
             competes against the established market leaders, Symantec
             and Intel, in the highly competitive desktop management and
             anti-virus markets?  (By contrast, Cheyenne is the market
             leader in the higher-value-added enterprise storage
             management market.)

         -   How could McAfee, a California-based company with some 300
             employees, hope to acquire and successfully manage a
             company twice its size, and to retain the people who are
             its principal assets, in what amounts to a different
             industry, with a radically different and incompatible
             business model, located more than 3,000 miles away?

         -   How could McAfee hope to deliver on its promise of so-
             called manufacturing efficiencies and other cost savings
             when Cheyenne already outsources all of its manufacturing,
             when there is virtually no significant geographic or
             functional overlap between the two organizations, and when
             Cheyenne is already operating at a very high level of
             organizational efficiency?

         -   What sense does it make for Cheyenne to link up with a
             company in direct competition with many of Cheyenne's most
             important strategic partners?

         -   What sense does it make to combine two companies whose
             distribution strategies are fundamentally incompatible?

         For these and other reasons, our Board and management have
         rejected McAfee's proposal.  We deplore McAfee's stated intent
         to pursue its proposal and the resulting confusion and concern
         this has caused among our shareholders, customers, employees,
         and other constituents.


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         Please be assured that all of us on the Board of Directors and
         management team of your Company very much appreciate your
         continuing interest and support and reaffirm our commitment to
         you, our shareholders.

         On behalf of the Board of Directors,

                                       Sincerely,

                                       /s/ ReiJane Huai

                                       ReiJane Huai
                                       Chairman, President and
                                         Chief Executive Officer


                                       ***

         Safe Harbor Statement
         Except for any statements of historical fact, the above
         statements constitute forward-looking statements and are
         inherently subject to uncertainties.  The actual results of
         Cheyenne may differ materially from the forward-looking
         statements noted above based on a number of important factors
         including, but not limited to:  receipt and fulfillment of
         expected orders; the level and timing of returns and exchanges;
         changes in general business conditions and seasonality; the
         growth in computer networking; market volatility related to the
         competition between Novell, Microsoft and other network
         operating system vendors and other factors; the successful
         expansion of Cheyenne into the Windows NT, UNIX, desktop,
         groupware, Internet, and firewall markets; the ability to
         expand successfully into new geographic regions; the
         maintenance and expansion of strategic partnerships; the
         effectiveness of price and other competition faced by
         Cheyenne; the market acceptance of new products like ARCserve
         Version 6.0 and the timing of such acceptance; the successful
         establishment of fee-based technical support; changes in
         distributors' and other customers' buying patterns; the
         continuation of the April trend in sell-through; changes in the
         Company's and the industry's sales practices; one-time events
         and other factors which may disrupt the Company's business; and
         other important factors disclosed from time to time in the
         Company's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and other Securities and
         Exchange Commission filings, including the Form 10-Q for the
         quarter ended Dec. 31, 1995 and, when filed, for the quarter
         ended March 31, 1996.







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                                                          EXHIBIT 20.2

                      [CHEYENNE SOFTWARE, INC. LETTERHEAD]



                                                  April 26, 1996

         Dear Fellow Cheyenne Shareholder:

         As you may know, on April 15, 1996, your Board of Directors
         declared a dividend distribution of Preferred Share Purchase
         Rights payable to shareholders of record as of April 26,
         1996.  These Rights contain provisions to protect
         shareholders in the event of an unsolicited attempt to
         acquire the Company by such means as a gradual accumulation
         of shares in the open market, a partial or two-tier tender
         offer that does not treat all shareholders equally, a
         squeeze-out merger and other abusive takeover tactics--
         tactics which the Board believes are not in the best
         interests of shareholders because they unfairly pressure
         shareholders, squeeze them out of their investment without
         giving them any real choice and deprive them of the full
         value of their shares.

         More than 1,700 companies, including approximately half of
         the Business Week 1000 companies and Fortune 500 companies
         and approximately two-thirds of the companies in the Fortune
         200, have issued rights to protect their shareholders against
         these tactics.  We consider the Rights to be the best
         available means of protecting both your right to retain your
         equity investment in Cheyenne and the full value of that
         investment, while not foreclosing a fair acquisition bid for
         the Company.

         The Rights are not intended to prevent a takeover of the
         Company and will not do so.  However, they should deter any
         attempt to acquire the Company in a manner, or on terms, not
         approved by the Board.  The Rights approved on April 15,
         1996, are designed to deal with the very serious problem of
         another person or company using abusive tactics to deprive
         Cheyenne's Board and its shareholders of any real opportunity
         to determine the destiny of the Company.

         The Rights may be redeemed by the Board of Directors for one
         cent per Right prior to the accumulation, through open-market
         purchases, a tender offer or otherwise, of 20% or more of the
         Company's shares by a single acquiror or group.  Thus, the
         Rights should not interfere with any merger or business
         combination approved by the Board of Directors prior to that
         time.

         Issuance of the Rights does not in any way weaken the
         financial strength of the Company or interfere with its
         business plans.  The issuance of the Rights has no dilutive
         effect, will not affect reported earnings per share, is not
         taxable to the Company or to you and will not change the way






         in which you can currently trade the Company's shares.  As
         explained in the attached "Summary of Rights to Purchase
         Preferred Shares," the Rights will only be exercisable if and
         when the problem which they were created to deal with arises.
         They will then operate to protect you against being deprived
         of your right to share in the full measure of your Company's
         long-term potential.

         Your Board was aware when it acted that some people have
         advanced arguments that securities of the sort we are issuing
         deter legitimate acquisition proposals.  We carefully
         considered these views and concluded that the arguments are
         speculative and do not justify leaving shareholders without
         any protection against unfair treatment by a potential
         acquiror--which, after all, will be seeking its own
         advantage, not yours.  Your Board believes that these Rights
         represent a sound and reasonable means of addressing the
         complex issues of corporate policy created by the current
         takeover environment.

         Please refer to the attached "Summary of Rights to Purchase
         Preferred Shares" for a description of the Rights.           

         Please note as well the enclosed letter to Cheyenne
         shareholders concerning an unsolicited proposal received by
         your Company on April 13 and unanimously rejected by your
         Board on April 15 for reasons set forth therein.

         In declaring the Rights dividend, we have expressed our
         confidence in the future of Cheyenne and our determination
         that you, our shareholders, be given every opportunity to
         participate fully in that future.

         On behalf of the Board of Directors,

                                       Sincerely,

                                       /s/ ReiJane Huai

                                       ReiJane Huai
                                       Chairman, President and
                                         Chief Executive Officer












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                         SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE
                                PREFERRED SHARES


         On April 15, 1996, the Board of Directors of Cheyenne
         Software, Inc. (the "Company") declared a dividend of one
         preferred share purchase right (a "Right") for each
         outstanding share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share
         (the "Common Shares"), of the Company.  The dividend is
         payable on April 26, 1996 (the "Record Date") to the
         shareholders of record on that date.  Each Right entitles the
         registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-
         hundredth of a share of Series A Junior Participating
         Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Preferred
         Shares"), of the Company at a price of $100 per one one-
         hundredth of a Preferred Share (the "Purchase Price"),
         subject to adjustment.  The description and terms of the
         Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement (the "Rights
         Agreement") between the Company and Continental Stock
         Transfer & Trust Company, as Rights Agent (the "Rights
         Agent").

         Until the earlier to occur of (i) 10 days following a public
         announcement that a person or group of affiliated or
         associated persons (other than (A) the Company, (B) a
         majority-owned subsidiary of the Company, (C) any employee
         benefit plan of the Company or any majority-owned subsidiary
         of the Company, or (D) any entity holding Common Shares for
         or pursuant to the terms of any such plan) has acquired
         beneficial ownership of 20% or more of the outstanding Common
         Shares (an "Acquiring Person") or (ii) 10 business days (or
         such later date as may be determined by action of the Board
         of Directors prior to such time as any person or group of
         affiliated persons becomes an Acquiring Person) following the
         commencement of, or public announcement of an intention to
         make, a tender offer or exchange offer the consummation of
         which would result in the beneficial ownership by a person or
         group of 20% or more of the outstanding Common Shares (the
         earlier of such dates being called the "Distribution Date"),
         the Rights will be evidenced, with respect to any of the
         Common Share certificates outstanding as of the Record Date,
         by such Common Share certificate with a copy of this Summary
         of Rights attached thereto.

         The Rights Agreement provides that, until the Distribution
         Date (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the
         Rights will be transferred with and only with the Common
         Shares.  Until the Distribution Date (or earlier redemption
         or expiration of the Rights), new Common Share certificates
         issued after the Record Date upon transfer or new issuance of
         Common Shares will contain a notation incorporating the

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         Rights Agreement by reference.  Until the Distribution Date
         (or earlier redemption or expiration of the Rights), the
         surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Shares
         outstanding as of the Record Date, even without such notation
         or a copy of this Summary of Rights being attached thereto,
         will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated
         with the Common Shares represented by such certificate.  As
         soon as practicable following the Distribution Date, separate
         certificates evidencing the Rights ("Right Certificates")
         will be mailed to holders of record of the Common Shares as
         of the close of business on the Distribution Date, and such
         separate Right Certificates alone will evidence the Rights.

         The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date.
         The Rights will expire on April 15, 2006 (the "Final
         Expiration Date"), unless the Final Expiration Date is
         extended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed or
         exchanged by the Company, in each case, as described below.

         The Purchase Price payable, and the number of Preferred
         Shares or other securities or property issuable, upon
         exercise of the Rights are subject to adjustment from time to
         time to prevent dilution (i) in the event of a stock dividend
         on, or a subdivision, combination or reclassification of, the
         Preferred Shares, (ii) upon the grant to holders of the
         Preferred Shares of certain rights or warrants to subscribe
         for or purchase Preferred Shares at a price, or securities
         convertible into Preferred Shares with a conversion price,
         less than the then-current market price of the Preferred
         Shares or (iii) upon the distribution to holders of the
         Preferred Shares of evidences of indebtedness or assets
         (excluding regular periodic cash dividends paid out of
         earnings or retained earnings or dividends payable in
         Preferred Shares) or of subscription rights or warrants
         (other than those referred to above).

         The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-
         hundredths of a Preferred Share issuable upon exercise of
         each Right are also subject to adjustment in the event of a
         stock split of the Common Shares or a stock dividend on the
         Common Shares payable in Common Shares or subdivisions,
         consolidations or combinations of the Common Shares
         occurring, in any such case, prior to the Distribution Date.

         Preferred Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Rights will
         not be redeemable.  Each Preferred Share will be entitled to
         a minimum preferential quarterly dividend payment of $1 per
         share but will be entitled to an aggregate dividend of 100
         times the dividend declared per Common Share.  In the event
         of liquidation, the holders of the Preferred Shares will be
         entitled to a minimum preferential liquidation payment of
         $100 per share but will be entitled to an aggregate payment


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         of 100 times the payment made per Common Share.  Each
         Preferred Share will entitle the holder to 100 votes on all
         matters submitted to shareholders of the Company, voting
         together as a single class with the holders of Common Shares.
         Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other
         transaction in which Common Shares are exchanged, each
         Preferred Share will be entitled to receive 100 times the
         amount received per Common Share.  These rights are protected
         by customary antidilution provisions.

         Because of the nature of the Preferred Share dividend,
         liquidation and voting rights, the value of the one one-
         hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon
         exercise of each Right should approximate the value of one
         Common Share.

         In the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or
         other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its
         consolidated assets or earning power are sold after a person
         or group has become an Acquiring Person, proper provision
         will be made so that each holder of a Right will thereafter
         have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the
         then current exercise price of the Right, that number of
         shares of common stock of the acquiring company which at the
         time of such transaction will have a market value of two
         times the exercise price of the Right.  In the event that any
         person or group of affiliated or associated persons becomes
         an Acquiring Person, proper provision shall be made so that
         each holder of a Right, other than Rights beneficially owned
         by the Acquiring Person (which will thereafter be void), will
         thereafter have the right to receive upon exercise that
         number of Common Shares having a market value of two times
         the exercise price of the Right.

         At any time after any person or group becomes an Acquiring
         Person and prior to the acquisition by such person or group
         of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Shares, the Board of
         Directors of the Company may exchange the Rights (other than
         Rights owned by such person or group, which will have become
         void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one
         Common Share, or one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share (or
         of a share of a class or series of the Company's preferred
         stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges),
         per Right (subject to adjustment).

         With certain exceptions, no adjustment in the Purchase Price
         will be required until cumulative adjustments require an
         adjustment of at least 1% in such Purchase Price.  No
         fractional Preferred Shares will be issued (other than
         fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth
         of a Preferred Share, which may, at the election of the
         Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts) and in lieu


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         thereof, an adjustment in cash will be made based on the
         market price of the Preferred Shares on the last trading day
         prior to the date of exercise.

         At any time prior to such time as any person becomes an
         Acquiring Person, the Board of Directors of the Company may
         redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of
         $0.01 per Right (the "Redemption Price").  The redemption of
         the Rights may be made effective at such time, on such basis
         and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its
         sole discretion may establish.  Immediately upon any
         redemption of the Rights, the right to exercise the Rights
         will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights
         will be to receive the Redemption Price.

         The terms of the Rights may be amended by the Board of
         Directors of the Company without the consent of the holders
         of the Rights, including an amendment to lower the 20%
         thresholds described above to not less than the greater of
         (i) the sum of .001% and the largest percentage of the
         outstanding Common Shares then known to the Company to be
         beneficially owned by any person or group of affiliated or
         associated persons (other than an excepted person) and (ii)
         10%, except that from and after such time as any person or
         group of affiliated or associated persons becomes an
         Acquiring Person, no such amendment may adversely affect the
         interests of the holders of the Rights.

         Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will
         have no rights as a shareholder of the Company, including,
         without limitation, the right to vote or to receive
         dividends.

         A copy of the Rights Agreement has been filed with the
         Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to a
         Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated April 15, 1996.  A
         copy of the Rights Agreement is available free of charge from
         the Company.  This summary description of the Rights does not
         purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by
         reference to the Rights Agreement, which is hereby
         incorporated herein by reference.













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