424B3 1 f424b3112001.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) (To Prospectus dated September 26, 2000) REGISTRATION NO. 333-43766 [SOFTWARE HOLDRS(SM) TRUST LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Software HOLDRS(SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated September 26, 2000 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Software HOLDRS(SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table on page 12 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market Adobe Systems Incorporated ADBE 6 Nasdaq NMS BMC Software, Inc. BMC 7 NYSE Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP 6 Nasdaq NMS Computer Associates International, Inc. CA 17 NYSE i2 Technologies, Inc. ITWO 10 Nasdaq NMS Intuit Inc. INTU 6 Nasdaq NMS Macromedia, Inc. MACR 1 Nasdaq NMS Mercury Interactive Corporation MERQ 2 Nasdaq NMS Micromuse Inc. MUSE 2 Nasdaq NMS Microsoft Corporation MSFT 15 Nasdaq NMS Nuance Communications, Inc. NUAN 1 Nasdaq NMS Oracle Corporation ORCL 24 Nasdaq NMS Peoplesoft, Inc. PSFT 8 Nasdaq NMS Openwave Systems Inc. OPWV 2 Nasdaq NMS Rational Software Corporation RATL 5 Nasdaq NMS SAP AG-preference shares SAP 16 NYSE Sapient Corporation SAPE 3 Nasdaq NMS Siebel Systems, Inc. SEBL 8 Nasdaq NMS TIBCO Software Inc. TIBX 5 Nasdaq NMS Veritas Software Corporation VRTS 7 Nasdaq NMS
The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is September 30, 2001.