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To: John T. Hardee who wrote (344)	9/25/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: Gary Teichrow	Respond to of 1238

John, I'm not sure I share your optimism on any new products for CNTR. Can they continue to ride the coat-tails of other companies who utilize CNTR's products -- sure. Do they really generate a significant amount of revenue from deals such as the one you just mentioned. I doubt it. If they really wanted to reinvent themselves, why couldn't they emulate ORCL and come out with home grown products, such as an e-commerce solution or an EDI or XML tool. They really should have jumped on the LINUX bandwagon 2 years ago. I personally sent e-mails to the CNTR president at the time suggesting just this. Could they have been Red-Hat? Of course not. But they might have had a great DB ready to go on LINUX and had a good start at getting their development tools ported to X, let's say. How many 4-GL's are their for the LINUX market? Not too many. Oh well, we all know what they say about hindsite. I wish that CNTR developers would have all banded together a couple of years ago and just taken the company over. I've met smarter developers using their tools to develop apps than I have ever met at the company itself. g

To: John T. Hardee who wrote (344)	9/27/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Veiko Herne	Respond to of 1238

Hi John Still following Centura? I'm holding it and still belive to the future. The problem seems to be, that all Centura Internet related press releases are about one partner. This gives a wrong impression, that there is no other partners in this arena. The CTD version 2 will be announced at 4Q 99/1Q 00 and Net.DB new version on are in beta. They are doing much marketing work with Velosis to target it rigth market (Nokia, etc...) . The big question will be, whether companies will outsource all the databases (incl. the accounting data) to Larry Ellison (look for example netledger.com, which is database service with accounting interface for $5/month) or do they still want to keep the data inside house and secure. What do You think? If all the data in world will be in Larry's hand, we have the god. Even FBI or IRS must follow the laws. Veiko