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Gold/Mining/Energy : AIT Advanced Information Technologies Corp.
AIV 5.710+0.3%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: David1 who wrote (42)11/27/1997 3:26:00 AM
From: Lee Matheson  Read Replies (2) of 130
 
These are good questions. I think the company may be asking
itself the same questions.

The market for travel control is there, albiet it was very
confused over a year ago, as the immigration and airlines had
"visions" of new technologies providing cheap and very hi-tech
products for identification. However, I don't think any such
product with very high technology had been packaged yet by any
company (including AIT) that could meet all the customer expectations.

I think I would venture to go one step further and say the
potential customers were unsure of what their requirements for
identification technology currently are.

The RapidEye area of remote surveillance is promising, but
there are so many competing techologies, I think it will always
be a difficult sell, and being "PC based" it could have lower
margins than desired. Everyone who has a PC at home is going to
think they can do it "one step better" and "one step cheaper".

I personally think it is harder to create a reliable remote
surveillance product than most people think, but it is up to AIT
to convince their potential customers (and distributors) that they
have the best product.

I suspect AIT's packaging and distribution channels will be key
to the company continuing to penetrate, and succeed in this market.

The video surveillance technology changes will be a moving threat to
AIT's product line, and thus the company will likely have to
keep its products up to date with good packaging, good distribution,
and features that don't make the equipment appear obsolete as the
technology moves forward.

Not an easy prospect.

But as far as I know AIT's two main share holders still hold
a large number of shares, despite the major share dillution
with the warrant issue. I think one can be assured that they
will be pushing the company's CEO and directors to turn the company
around to be successful.
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