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Non-Tech : Ashton Technology (ASTN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mst2000 who wrote (1802)	6/17/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4443

Anyone w/ SI posting access by: watching_in_amazement 16515 of 16526 I noticed mr. goldfinger on SI is now an IT expert. Someone might want to post the following article from CBS Marketwatch: cbs.marketwatch.com vs. UNIXSoftware and hardware spending isn't seen growing as strongly. Those companies are expected to spend 2.3 percent of their IT budgets on software and 4 percent on hardware. Services, meanwhile, are expected to absorb 21 percent compounded from 1996 to 2002.On the software server side, Novell (NOVL: news, msgs) looks likely to lose significant market share, according to the respondents. Microsoft's (MSFT: news, msgs) Windows NT has emerged as the new platform of choice for Wall Street firms, growing some 130 percent in the last two years, Tabb said.

To: mst2000 who wrote (1802)	6/18/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: AJ Berger	Respond to of 4443

ASTN may be vulnerable to market volume like ITG biz.yahoo.com anyone staying long this stock may want to learn from ASTN's competitor ITG, that these companies will only grow significantly as long as volume and volatility in the markets exist. When volume abates, even for a quarter, stocks like ITG can get hurt, ASTN will be no different in this respect.

To: mst2000 who wrote (1802)	6/18/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Levin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4443

"I'm sure NASDAQ and NYSE are happy with their UNIX platforms -- but I wonder exactly how and with what software they are designing their future electronic modules. I don't suppose you know what their future systems design architecture and requirements are (with precision)?? I didn't think so. MST" Auric is not an expert in O/S. But I have been in the business for 10 years and I can assure you that any company that deals with 100k transactions a day or more will never use MSFT products as back bone as a matter of fact not alot of them use UNIX it is all still done on the mainframe side and this fact will not change in the forseeable future.