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To: David R who wrote (4875)5/12/2000 9:25:00 PM
From: Kashish King   of 5102
 
I disagree insofar as JBuilder (and the JBuilder team) is worth the difference between the cash they have right now and another 400 million. If you look at companies like BEA systems, a tool like that is of astronomical value. Want to merge? What about Iona? Then there's Oracle: they must have some sweet deal because their future is entwined with JBuilder, although they are still very much a PL/SQL driven company. That's changing rapidly. I think it would be a huge mistake to underestimate the value of JBuilder to any turn-key JSP/XML e-commerce development suite. Clearly they are ahead of IBM and Sun here. I really think this is a slam-dunk $400 million on top of the cash and probably a lot more.

Give Dale and the BOD the golden boot and let them move on with their lives. This company's gotten too valuable in the last year and the time is ripe for a serious AQ. Forget the misrepresented financial status of Corel, the drop in the stock price and so on. Even at the time of the deal this made no sense whatsoever. Then again, I didn't ponder it for a whole two days. I am still boggled by this.

BTW, the Corel plants are now threatening detractors. It's the cornered rat reaction so I think things are looking up. I guess they tried this with the killthedeal dude, too. It doesn't appear to be working, however.
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