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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (3696)	12/12/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Peter H. Mack	Respond to of 5102

The promise of Linux to a lot of people is very real. It is hope for control, better security, and an alternative to MS Windows that makes it very attractive. A lot of people are coming to feel that the MS Windows route has been overly manipulated by commercial interests, and this is a chance to break free. Now that office applications are starting to show up, Linux looks much more attractive as a useful medium.Corel has ported Worperfect 8.0 and is supplying an office environment with their Linux for example. It is an excellent time to look into this world, and maybe put up a machine to run in the linux world. I have seen plaudits for Corel and also Caldera. Both are supposed to be fairly easy to bring up. (No harder than Windows) I used Borland products for years and always found them to be excellent.. I trust that INPR will have enough vision to make good strategies in this market so have gone long on them also. (pete)

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (3696)	12/12/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

All of a sudden lot's of people are talking and comparing INPR to RHAT and CORL and some are saying INPR is superior to both and having much more essential products that enhance not only those companies but other Linux and enterprise products etc. etc. etc. I don't know? All that I do know is the investment community is giving RHAT and CORL much more financial awareness and valuation than INPR. May be this will change and may be not. But one has to wonder why the interest drives RHAT to $300+ CORL to $30+ and INPR to 17+ Is it the float or outstanding shares? Are there other factors involved which really make all these stocks really equal but priced differently? Is the market all of sudden going to wake up and start to raise INPR's stock price through valuation interest buying? Or are there things we must first learn or hear about that will give a more truer valuation of the stock price? Or is it correctly priced now? Until these and other questions are answered I cannot put a true value on INPR. This leaves much uncertainty which leaves concern to first take profit and then do more DD or study to get a better picture. One thing for sure there is an improved positive tone to INPR's stock price in the last three weeks but what other than Linux interest has changed? If there are real earnings coming from Linux or other ventures I personally do not know how to value it? Also a buyout from SUNW was always a reason for stock appreciation but then slowly or rapidly faded in the past. I'm being optimistically cautious with money in hand right now! TTOSBT