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AMZN 229.12-0.2%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: H James Morris who wrote (84714)11/20/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Tom D  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
There is considerable optimism built into the share price.

I would take the profits and run, since horrendous competition will be emerging in this field. There are already over 2 dozen handheld prescription writing companies. Allscripts is ahead of some of them because they are offering an incremental revenue stream to physicians. But the whole problem is creating enough revenues to motivate doctors to embrace electronics, and to offset the tremendous time requirements for use of the devices. I expect there will be other companies who will create more compelling reasons for doctors to get wired than Allscripts can.

In addition, while there are 750,000 doctors in the US, only a minority of them are candidates for the Allscripts prescription writer, due to prior alliances, and the structure of their medical groups.

I am skeptical.

Tom
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