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Technology Stocks : Quarterdeck: Making a Striking Comeback!
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To: J. Kittle who wrote (3241)10/15/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan   of 3307
 
I'm in over 8, and to be honest, to me it looks pretty fair.
Here's why:

1) negative book value of 38 cents/share
2) dead product portfolio, the only thing of interest is cleansweep

All of their products have competitors that are just about as good if not better. Cleansweep gets all the awards, but it ain't that much better than all the other uninstallers, its only of value to Symantec because of that court case they just lost.

Anti-virus? Macafee and Norton.
Crash-defender? Cybermedia and norton.
Winprobe/Tuneup? Macafee and Norton.
Diskclone/partition it? PowerQuest and Norton/Ghost.
Zip-it? Norton and Mijenix (who kicks *everyone's* butt in this category)
Qemm? Hah!
Procomm? Norton and Traveling Software, there is even some good free stuff
Webcompass? Nice but too obscure.
IWare? Artisoft, WinGate, etc...

Quarterdeck just stopped innovating and became just another utility company without a single unique product, much less any sort of killer utility like Qemm was.

Personally, as a holder of Inprise, Symantec's competitor in the java development world, I'm hoping that Symantec's acquisition of Quarterdeck just drags them down, $65M is about 25% of Symantec's total cash and all they get out of it is Cleansweep.
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