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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: opalapril who wrote (11320)	8/17/1999 12:24:00 PM
From: opalapril	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

For the record, if anyone is making one (god forbid), I do not think Ellen should be fired or should resign. Heck, everybody makes mistakes. Even a lu-lu like this one. All Jack Castello should insist upon is the tattoo (in washable ink). It would have clinical benefit though who can know for sure, statistically speaking?

To: opalapril who wrote (11320)	8/17/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: Cacaito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17367

Opalapril, Ellen M. Martin must stay in the Job. I do not think is her fault. It is Jack Castello who must resign. He has no vision to understand the disaster coming around and to clearly state as a CEO and as a company where things stand. Now he is letting Ellen do the work alone. Jack Castello cowardice moved 5 million shares so far during half day of trading. It is not going to hold at $5 today, is on the way to $ub1. Ellen M. Martin, my apologies. Thank you for the phone call (She call me, but I am not a shareholder anymore, We did not talk beyond hello). Nothing personal, plain business. "scheduling meeting to determine adequacy for filling a BLA" No guts, file the BLA and let the independent panel review it. Cephalon and Corr follow this path. And should they keep wasting money in the trauma trial? Very clever " a meeting of an independent DSMB is scheduled for September to do an interim safety and EFFICACY analysis" It is not true the anaysis last days and days. Some $100 million expend over two years and they only have "preliminary" results. Any 386 could do this in couple of days (I have work in Anova and Manova, regression analysis, and the likes, I have seen how computers do in seconds what I have to do with a calculator for several hours or days back in my third world country )a Pentium will do it in a few minutes, this data is surely well organized. There is a Xoma statistician who knew all along the results and he probably was ready to have everything ready in couple of days once the final bits of data came in. But, if Jack Castello could not predict today's upheaval, how can he have the data? Worse, maybe Jack Castello did have the data, he just could not move, like todays mess. Leaving it all to Ellen M. Martin, just pure cowardice.

To: opalapril who wrote (11320)	8/17/1999 9:35:00 PM
From: Tharos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

I sent Ellen a note. Asking if the data was statistically significant or just noteworthy. No reply as of yet. The Yahoo! board is nuts. Glad I'm leaving for a few days. Yes, the PR job could have been much better, as far as letting Ellen play with the wolves, I'm a big believer in giving a person the opportunity to succede. That inevetably means there will be failures along the way. Of course we are unhappy because it was expensive for us. I suggest we let her learn and next time she screws up like this we ask for the axe. Until then look at it as we've gained a more experienced PR person. sorry, no time to spell check. latter. good luck to all.