To: rupert1 who wrote (1791 ) 10/29/1999 1:24:00 PM From: rupert1 Respond to
I wrote to several officers of NETP. I got immediate replies. One from the person who was appointed one month ago to deal with getting NETP in the press. He said he is getting geared up and pointed me to the October 5th NY Times article. Others essentially said they are aware of concerns and working on it. One sent the reply below (the gist of which I have seen before).We understand your concerns, but it's important to know that many, perhaps the majority, of our customers see the adoption of our software as a strategically important decision that they do not want to publicize -- at least initially. In order to stay close to our customers, we try to work with them to address these issues. Oftentimes, that means that we do not issue a free-standing press release announcing a new customer win. That does not, however, mean that we don't press hard to persuade our customers to allow us to publicize our relationship immediately upon the signing of a contract. Failing that, we sometimes must settle for a lower profile mention of the relationship in one of our quarterly earnings releases; this was the case with several wins that took place in the third quarter.
