There are no filings for EINI. If you want to find out the reporting period for MVEE look at the dates on the SEDAR filing they just made.
There is this mention of EINI in the ONPS filing:
International competitors who do offer services similar to the Company's include: Breakdown Services Ltd., "The Link" and CastNet(EINI) ("Castnet")
Since neither Castnet for Breakdown Services has a reporting obligation under the Securities Act of 1934, the information presented below regarding Castnet and Breakdown Services is based on information derived primarily from their respective web sites.
CASTNET
CastNet is a U.S. company that over the past 1.5 years has attempted to develop a software and database technology similar to Online's Casting Workbook having been developed over the past 4.0 years. CastNet has announced further development of products which OnLine has are already completed or has in advanced design
CastNet's software design is considerably less robust and interactive compared to the Casting Workbook. For example, CastNet's breakdowns are "open fields", so information in those fields is incapable of being retrieved, organized and managed in as much detail and as easily as it can be with the Casting Workbook. Furthermore, the CastNet breakdown is faxed during office hours and redistribution to the agents by CastNet personnel, while with the Casting Workbook, breakdowns can be sent instantly from the casting director's computer 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. In addition, CastNet provides limited security, as scripts and sides are distributed in mass to everyone, and cannot be sent to pre-selected recipients, as is the case with the Casting Workbook.
Another of the many differences between the two products is in searching. When a search is performed on CastNet, the results can only be viewed one page at a time and in a linear fashion, so a casting director who has 100 pages of results and wants to read page 100 would have to go through the first 99 pages to get there. With the Casting Workbook, the director can instantaneously go to any page he chooses.
The CastNet system uses an expensive ISDN line and requires high
maintenance. The CastNet database is not as easy to use and lacks complexity.
BREAKDOWN SERVICES
Breakdown Services is a U.S. company, with a similar database software to that of Online's Casting Workbook, but considerably less powerful and flexible. Again, unlike the 4 years of development behind the Casting Workbook, Breakdown Services has only developed their product for the past 1.5 years. More specifically, the software and database are not as user friendly. Their software is "nonrelational" sitting on five different servers, which means the user must go through considerably more steps in the program to access certain information or perform a task. Like CastNet, casting directors can only send breakdowns during office hours. Unlike the Casting Workbook, Breakdown's technology lacks the flexibility to allow a casting director to selectively choose which talent agents he wants his scripts and sides sent. Equally important, and unlike the Casting Workbook, actors cannot immediately update their information on the database, to ensure casting directors always receive their most up to date profile.
Breakdown Services has offered a hand delivery system for script breakdowns in the United States and Canada for more than four years.
(This starts on page 15 of the filing for ONPS.) |
