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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (64157)	6/25/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

El, I think it is time to reestablish 50PAQ. The only difference is we are looking at Jan 01 as a target date. At least, Bosnia-Herzegovina is running on CPQ. NW SCO: SCO teams with Compaq and Oracle to help Bosnia-Herzegovina JUN 25, 1999, M2 Communications - Bosnia-Herzegovina is a country which has become known throughout the world because of its recent war. Today as a nation, rather than as one of the six states within Yugoslavia, the country is modernising itself with its use of leading edge technology in government and amongst the populace. In the last six years the Federal Ministry of Interior has moved its computer operations from a Honeywell mainframe to a distributed managed network built on Compaq systems, SCO's UNIX operating system and an Oracle database. "We were fortunate to have started what we did when we did," says Adnan Filipovic, who was in charge of IT co-ordination in the Ministry of Interior in the time of the war. "During the war the Honeywell system and all its civil data records were severely damaged so we were fortunate to have duplicated them on the newly developing system just before they were lost," says Filipovic. "Even before the destruction of the mainframe, and due to intensive destruction of the communication infrastructure, over 90% of the remote terminals were already cut off from the main system." Needs From the days of being a part of Yugoslavia, Bosnia's Interior State Ministry had retained details of the population for feeding into the Yugoslav government. Once Yugoslavia broke up, following Tito's death, Bosnia had to develop a system of its own to identify citizens of the new country and establish each one with an appropriate identity card. Some people, who had been born in Bosnia but who had left the country, now wished to return to their homeland and claim citizenship again. Others applied to become citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina rather than remain in adjoining countries for various reasons. The war only increased the need for the existence of the reliable civil records database. The war crimes committed then attempted to wipe-out every trace of the existence of entire families, hundreds even thousands of persons. It appeared that for some of the victims, the only trace that ever existed was a record in the civil database. There was therefore a lot of work needed and new systems required. "We wanted an IT environment that allowed us fast system development and a system that was very reliable," says Filipovic, "and we wanted no sort of proprietary system, we were adamant about that." Solution "The war was going on so there was something of a problem with availability," Filipovic adds. "We went with Compaq and SCO's UNIX operating system because it was easily available and it fulfilled our early criteria, but if we had to do it all again now with all possible choices we would happily do the same." The data records on the Honeywell were duplicated onto a Compaq server and the Interior Ministry was still in the process of developing the Compaq network when the Honeywell was damaged during one of countless mortar and artillery attacks on Sarajevo from the surrounding hills. The new system had to be implemented with no further delays, and so it was done. Gradually, as the communication facilities were becoming more and more available, new server sites were being established and incorporated into the distributed scheme. About SCO SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of all kinds - including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices - to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world's first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. www.sco.com -0- (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTDCONTACT: Vicky Steel/Claire Dell/Sarah Cull, icas public relations Tel: +44 (0)1442 261199 Fax: +44 (0)1442 236401 e-mail: sarah@icas.co.uk M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (64157)	6/26/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Howard Feinstein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

El, to each is own! And so the markets goes! I sold out at 22 9/16 at a loss from 30. I did however cash in a big on $30 Puts when the stock had that Monday morning dive from 31 to 24! All I was trying to say is why would this hoser double in 12 months? They are certainly not in any shape for such a positive move! Double your money somewhere else. Trying to rationalize that's all. I might get back in this porker, but only when the tide has changed! Do you see any glimpse of a positive change? I don't. Still like ya' kid! Good luck! Howie