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To: Boplicity who wrote (284)	8/23/1999 11:16:00 PM
From: New Economy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 989

RIM ******* A (P/S) ratio of more than 20 indicates a potential gorilla growing off a small revenue base - or a "MARKET MANIA." Geoffrey Moore, a noted technology industry consultant and author, says the price-to-sales (P/S) ratio provides a gaugeof a company's earnings power and is a much more useful guide to analyzing high-tech companies than standard methods such as price-earnings ratios. If we divide RIM's previous four quarters of revenues into its market cap we would get something well over 20 times! Geoffrey Moore's "The Gorilla Game: An investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology" "Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge" Analyst come out of no where and put buy ratings on a stock after the fact to the investing public while their institutional customers have bought in way before the rally. Why is it that these analyst reports were not released to the public last Tues or even Wed. when RIM released new info? So that the retail investor could buy into a hyped rally. Think about it folks, they make a device that needs to be adapted by the mass market. Corporations today have users on Notebook computers which may come with a either PC Card modem, a wireless modem, or connectivity through the users cell phone. Nokia 6000 series phones (TDMA) gives numerous options to retrieve mail, intereactive it may not be but I would find it quite tedious to type a message into that little pager than to just return that important Corp. e-mail with a quick phone call. As for the ISP deal, do I want my e-mail following me? Ask yourself if you want your e-mail following you every where you go. Would be willing to pay the premium or would you opt for a cell phone?