<<Wade, I don't know who Mr. Khan is - and I'd like to know because his name turned up here as a ZITL touter. I know nothing else.>>
If you don't know anything about him, why bring him up?
<<I'm glad you found her account accurate.>>
I didn't say it was accurate; I said it was neutral. There were plusses and minuses. Actually that first Barron's (Bearon's?) piece embarrassed itself by stating that a disclaimer at the end of of a Zitel press release was "unusual"; it was absolutely standard.
<<To me the innuendo was unmistakable.>>
Who knows what what one can see with bear-tinted lenses on? Let's consider the Kevin Schick story. Schick is an acknowledged expert on the y2k situation (1). Even Mondoman hasn't challenged his credentials, and that is saying something (given that he has sneered at an IBM Fellow, a major marketer/manager for Microsoft, and the inventor of the HP-35). From several independent sources (mostly reported at AOL) we have the following description: Schick was skeptical on visiting MatriDigm, and came away evangelized. Now we hear a rumor (and it is only that at this point) that he may be working for Zitel or MatriDigm or Viasoft (the latter because he is sure Viasoft will employ the MatriDigm technology). This all makes good sense: The study and explanation phase of the y2k problem is coming to an end; this is what Gartner excels at. Schick, with his contacts and expertise, now wants to be involved in implementation of y2k solutions where he will be of the most benefit (to himself too, of course). That he chose Z/M speaks volumes (if the rumor is correct). Of course there is the "scam" theory, which has an avid following on this thread: Brady, Chiang, King, Harris, Titow, Schick, Stewart, and Mother Teresa are all part of a giant conspiracy to defraud investors of their hard-earned pension money. Believing that, the O.J. verdict must seem like Newton's inverse-square law of gravitation to you.
So, Thomas, your argument that "very few institutional investors who want to be tarred and feathered with a stock as featured in Barron's L. Rublin column, and the WSJ's talk of the street column not to mention CNBC etc." is groundless unless we are dealing with idiots at the helm. Which we may be.
(1) One thing the bears have never brought up about Schick: If he's so goddamned knowledgeable about y2k, then why did it take him until September to learn about MatriDigm? I've known about MatriDigm since February. Strange ...
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