To: Arthur Radley who wrote (8569 ) 8/3/1999 10:51:00 PM From: ecommerceman Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Tex--After taking Klingerg to task for selectivity (and he was right to note that he included the URL for the entire article), perhaps you will admit that you were being a little, uh, disingenuous when you wrote earlier today that, "As for supporting evidence.....10 years and no trip down the aisle with one of my grooms [CPQ, IBM, etc.] that I mentioned." Is it really surprising, Tex, that Wave didn't sell any Wavemeters before the internet burst into full bloom? I don't think so. Sprague was substantially ahead of his time when he came up with the idea of the Wavemeter, and not until recently was it a viable concept because existing technology hadn't yet caught up to the brilliance of it. Of course, I'd be a fool if I admitted that there was no risk here--there's plenty of risk, and I may lose every last dollar that I've invested in this company. On the other hand, if Sprague is the visionary that I believe him to be, the reward that I'll receive will dwarf almost all other stocks. Time, of course, will tell.
