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Technology Stocks : Ariba Technologies (Nasdaq-ARBA)

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (137)6/25/1999 10:17:00 AM
From: Simon Withers  Read Replies (1) of 2110
 
>But at least for now its an a-list offering until sap, oracle etc.
>produce an equivalent product and it remains to be seen if they can
>do that or want to.

SAP are currently rolling out their own B-to-B procurement system aimed squarely at this market. I don't imagine Oracle will be far behind....

>I don't believe these people are actually shorting this stock, btw.

As far as I recall they had revenues of just over 8 million dollars in 1998. They now have a market cap of somewhere in the region of 3 billion dollars. Perhaps that goes some way to explaining it!
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