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Technology Stocks : STARBASE (SBAS)- InfoWorld Hot Product Review -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Boplicity who wrote (791)	12/13/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 1502

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To: Boplicity who wrote (791)	12/13/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: ClearSky	Respond to of 1502

SBAS's basic niche is software configuration management, which helps companies manage the very complex software development cycle. This is a somewhat specialized target client--software development team--than AOL and other biggies, so if they wanted to enter the field they would probably do so by acquisition. SBAS's product has evolved over many years. If you review their website and other past info, you will see that they have consistently been recognized for product excellence through industry awards and favorable product reviews. So, IMHO, there are pretty significant barriers to entry in their base business, which could be averted by acquisition. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what company would be the best value in the industry?

To: Boplicity who wrote (791)	12/13/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: architect*	Respond to of 1502

Gregory, Netscape was one of the early leaders in the Open Source free code movement. Wasn't NSCP one of the early financial backers of Red Hat? SBAS backing of OpenAvenue is similar. Helps keep new ideas coming in. My understanding is an X software license can become private, I am not a computer programmer so I don't know how that is done. Freeing the Source The Story of Mozilla Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton oreilly.com On January 23, 1998, Netscape made two announcements. first, as reported by C\|Net: "In an unprecedented move, Netscape Communications will give away its Navigator browser, confirming rumors over the last several weeks." The second: "It also will give away the source code for the next generation of its Communicator suite." The decision to give away the browser came as no surprise, but the release of the source code stunned the industry. It hit the pages of newspapers around the world, and even the Open Source community was surprised at the move. Never before had a major software company opened up its proprietary code. What was Netscape up to now? We had decided to change the playing field, and not for the first time. Always known for thinking outside the box, this time Netscape was taking the commitment to building a better Internet to a new level. When Netscape initiated unrestricted distribution of early versions of its browser over the Internet in 1994, people said "That's crazy!"