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To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (77033)	12/9/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 90042

yeah but sbas is a virgin here..mark my word here there will be major players coming into this stock in the next few days...i think we have a 20+ stock here....windows,java,linux

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (77033)	12/9/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 90042

Open Source and OpenAvenue Open source software has arrived. The "why" of open source has been proven by the broad commercial acceptance of high-profile programs such as Linux, Apache, and Perl, and the well-publicized success of Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) in turning Linux into a commercial product. But a crucial step must be taken to continue the viability of the public development model, the "how." Open Avenue provides the "how" for enabling the "Open Industry," the rapidly growing community of developers, owners and users of publicly developed software, including open source, shareware, and freeware, as well as emerging hybrids of open source components as parts of commercial programs. OpenAvenue is the leading enabler of the Open Industry through its unique global collaborative infrastructure of Web-based technologies and services that turn the process of public development into a commercially viable platform. Our platform makes it possible for a worldwide community of software developers, users, information foragers and support personnel to access a large pool of hosted project content (source code, documentation, support documentation, FAQs, etc.) to learn from it, and to cooperate with others to modify it. By aggregating community around project content, OpenAvenue becomes a unique open source marketplace, with the ability to intermediate e-commerce and services to the community, including recruiting and the brokering of paid development projects. OpenAvenue's robust new platform will drive the next phase of the Open Industry's growth by enabling large companies to incorporate open source software into their business. Until now, companies that require a particular software component or application to be built have lacked a reliable way to bring projects to an international pool of developers with the necessary incentives and controls to ensure commercial viability. And until now, developers have lacked an efficient way to collaborate on these projects and contribute to the knowledge bases around them. They have also lacked the necessary infrastructure of tools and services to manage development life cycles for these projects, as they would expect in more conventional development environments. By solving these infrastructure problems today, OpenAvenue can lead the Open Industry across the chasm that currently separates the "movement" from the larger world of corporate software developers. As a result, OpenAvenue is uniquely positioned to become the new standard for delivering "hosted" or outsourced technologies and services to the evolving development organizations of the future. OpenAvenue and the Software Development Industry Many industry experts believe open source movement will have a dramatic effect on the conventional software development organizations within the Information Technology (IT) departments of large global organizations. The driving force behind this belief is very simple: when developers via the Internet (or corporate intranet) can access, modify, and redistribute the source code for a software project, it can evolve at an incredible pace when compared to conventional proprietary software development. The quality of the code can improve through the efforts of a larger pool of motivated talent; enhancements can be more rapidly incorporated and redeployed to the user community, resulting in a significant reduction in overhead costs; and the feedback loop between user requirements and programmer delivery being dramatically shortened for faster response to today's accelerated time-to-market imperative. Another key factor is the crucial problem faced by IT organizations in attracting and retaining "all star" development resources. Application development managers are being driven to find ways to outsource the development of critical software components, in order to keep up with the growing demand for new Web applications, which are the centerpiece of today's e-Business initiatives. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. organizations spent $180 billion last year on contract and salaried software development. One of the most effective solutions is to expose their projects and components to a worldwide pool of talent represented by the OpenAvenue community. Just as the Application Service Provider (ASP) model (application outsourcing, or hosting) will impact the way these organizations procure and maintain enterprise applications from software vendors such as Oracle and SAP, it is believed that IT development organizations will also require that vendors and other service providers host many of the life cycle management tools and services that IT commonly purchases today. OpenAvenue is in a unique position to offer the solution. Our concentrated effort in supporting the vastly-larger open source community, will "prove" our model, positioning us to deliver a proven global collaborative platform to the commercial IT world, providing a cost-effective way to host and manage the application life cycle.

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (77033)	12/9/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 90042

Linux is this year's .com frenzy. Recall that last year, things didn't die down for the net nuts until, what? April?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (77033)	12/9/1999 8:53:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 90042

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarBase Launches the First Global Collaborative Web Community for Software Developers Jul 2nd, 14:51:26 OpenAvenue Takes Leadership Role in Providing Developers with an Online Workplace for Creating, Sharing, and Collaborating in Software Projects SANTA ANA, Calif., - July 1, 1999 - StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS), a leading provider of Internet and intranet based technical collaboration products for web content management and web quality control software, announced today the official launch of OpenAvenue Inc., a vertical Portal servicing the software development industry and its community of knowledge workers. The OpenAvenue brand will represent a dynamic marketplace where virtual development teams, formed around OpenAvenue's online workplaces, collaborate and share knowledge on distributed software projects. OpenAvenue's flexible architecture allows these projects to cover a wide range of source code models,including private source code licenses, virtual consulting and open-source software. The uniqueness of OpenAvenue's business-to-business services model stems from the portal's ability to quickly create online development teams and enable developers to easily contribute their knowledge and code directly into project repositories, while automatically controlling all phases of the application's life cycle. OpenAvenue is powered by StarTeam, which acts as a core technology hub where knowledge, contributions, and context are created, stored, and maintained. By enabling developers to work together successfully, OpenAvenue will establish itself as "the community" for the software development world. The long-duration involvement in development projects gives OpenAvenue substantial opportunities to (i) generate advertising revenues, (ii) establish software development-related business services, and (iii) establish an online storefront to sell software-related products. StarBase Corporation recently established OpenAvenue as a separate corporation, with StarBase maintaining a majority equity stake in the Company for a limited time. Other industry software and hardware companies will join StarBase in supporting and accelerating the growth of OpenAvenue by contributing content, supporting initiatives, and by taking either equity or other partnership positions. Ultimately, OpenAvenue will pursue a public offering. Prior to the Portal going live this fall, Open Avenue is actively recruiting projects by freely hosting open-source, shareware, and consulting projects, with a high degree of success. William R. Stow III, chairman and chief executive officer of StarBase, stated "I believe that OpenAvenue will make obsolete the way many software companies currently sell their products. It is vital for StarBase and other software companies to join the new Internet economy and ride the rising tidal wave. We are joining with many other major industry partners who together with us will provide the necessary leadership as OpenAvenue unfolds." Jayson Minard, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of OpenAvenue stated, "The press, software developers, and users have been telling companies to get involved in open-source. Software and hardware companies are saying they want to be involved. The problem isn't lack of interest, but rather lack of the 'how' to start and sustain their open-source initiatives. OpenAvenue provides the 'how', with a channel to public collaboration in software development, consulting, and support. For developers, OpenAvenue has substantially lowered the barrier to open-source participation by creating a highly intuitive interface. In effect, we are making open-source transparent for the mainstream developer, and automating the project lifecycle." Carlos Caballero, general manager of OpenAvenue, stated, "OpenAvenue is about content, knowledge and community. The community forms around the content supplied by our partners, and then collaborates to produce knowledge, which in turn creates additional content. Our Portal will attract developers who want to work on global development projects and who seek real-life knowledge and support. It will also attract software users looking for the hottest and greatest products generated by our community of developers. OpenAvenue's mission is to create, sustain, empower and grow an independent community of the world's best knowledge workers, working on world-class projects and supported by the best companies in the software industry." About OpenAvenue OpenAvenue is a privately held company located in Scotts Valley, California, with current majority ownership held by StarBase Corporation (NASDAQ: SBAS). OpenAvenue is a Web-based brand specializing in the hosting, management and execution of collaborative development projects, and can be found online at www.openave.com. About StarBase StarBase Corporation offers a complete family of advanced Internet and Intranet-based technical collaboration products for web site production, e-commerce application development and software configuration management for mission critical applications. StarBase products were designed to improve development team productivity throughout the corporate enterprise over internal networks or remotely on the Web. StarTeam has won several awards including being named the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows by Microsoft and CMP Media in April 1999 and "Best of the Test Center" by InfoWorld in Jan. 1998. Leading organizations such as Hollywood Entertainment, Bank of America, Boeing, Dell Corporation, Intel Corporation, Sprint, and Xerox have chosen StarTeam to aid in their development projects. StarBase is located at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Tel: (714) 445-4400. Fax: (714) 445-4404. Visit StarBase's web site at www.starbase.com. When used in the preceding discussion, the words "believes, expects, or intend to" and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) conditions in the general economy or the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software products, (v) sell-through of products in the sales channel, (vi) and other risks described in StarBase Corporation's SEC reports and filings. StarBase and its product names are trademarks of StarBase Corporation. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (77033)	12/9/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Tim Luke	Respond to of 90042

how to be a billionaire overnight ; ; ; ; ; Thursday December 9, 8:34 pm Eastern Time Va Linux founder worth over $1 billion on paper SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 (Reuters) - Larry Augustin, the founder of VA Linux Systems Inc. (NasdaqSC:LNUX - news), likes to tell the story that while a graduate student at Stanford University, he had a chance to join fellow students David Filo and Jerry Yang when they started up Yahoo Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news). Instead, he decided to build workstations that run the then little-known Linux operating system in his apartment, much to the amazement of some who later heard his tale. But on Thursday, Augustin, 37, joined the ranks of Silicon Valley's instant paper billionaires, when the company he founded in 1995, formally known as VA Research, went public with the biggest one-day percentage gain in IPO history. Augustin owns 6.6 million shares of VA Linux Systems, including 384,000 shares owned by his wife Alice Augustin, according to the company's SEC filings. Shares of VA Linux Systems, which soared almost 700 percent Thursday, closed at 239-1/4 on the NASDAQ, making Augustin's stake worth about $1.57 billion on paper. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital of Menlo Park, Calif. was the biggest beneficiary on paper, with a stake of over 18 million shares. Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news), another early investor in VA, owns 3.5 million shares.