424B3 1 f424b3_103102-software.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT REGISTRATION NO. 333-43766 (To Prospectus dated January 29, 2002) [HOLDRS SOFTWARE LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Software HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated January 29, 2002 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 BMC Software, Inc. BMC 7 NYSE Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP 6 NASDAQ Computer Associates International, Inc. CA 17 NYSE Intuit Inc. INTU 6 NASDAQ i2 Technologies, Inc. ITWO 10 NASDAQ Macromedia, Inc. MACR 1 NASDAQ Mercury Interactive Corporation MERQ 2 NASDAQ Micromuse Inc. MUSE 2 NASDAQ Microsoft Corporation MSFT 15 NASDAQ Nuance Communications, Inc. NUAN 1 NASDAQ Openwave Systems Inc. OPWV 2 NASDAQ Oracle Corporation ORCL 24 NASDAQ Peoplesoft, Inc. PSFT 8 NASDAQ Rational Software Corporation RATL 5 NASDAQ SAP AG-preference shares * SAP 16 NYSE Sapient Corporation SAPE 3 NASDAQ Siebel Systems, Inc. SEBL 8 NASDAQ TIBCO Software Inc. TIBX 5 NASDAQ Veritas Software Corporation VRTS 7 NASDAQ
-------------------------------------- *The preference shares of this non-U.S. company trade in the United States as American Depositary Receipts. Please see "Risk Factors" and "United States Federal Income Tax Consequences--Special considerations with respect to underlying securities of foreign issuers" for additional factors to consider with respect to an investment in a non-U.S. company. 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, 2002.