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To: Boolish who wrote (16855)	12/14/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: Jim Bishop	Respond to of 150070

SDWSF that one is worth posting, thanks Boolish. investingcanada.about.com Marco den Ouden - your About.com Guide Top of our list is one we just added this week - Sideware Systems (CDNX - SYD.U, OTC - SDWSF). It jumped from $1.68 on Nov. 26 to $3.05 on Dec. 3rd and then moved up to $5.65 on Dec. 10th for a gain this week of 85.25% and an increase for the two weeks of 236.1%. It is the focus of this week's profile. The company has been around for a number of years. It gained some attention a couple of years ago as Jot-It Software for its invention of a computer version of the yellow sticky note. You could paste these on your screen electronically as reminders to yourself. The company then went on to change its name to Sideware Systems and to develop a new product. They saw a hole in the conventional e-commerce model. People were reluctant to buy online because they were dealing with a faceless entity. There was no customer service. So Sideware came up with Dr. Bean, a Customer Relations Management program that let's customers interface with real sales clerks online. (You might call it applying the About.com model of real Guides to e-commerce.) In June the company released Dr. Bean V. 2.0 and in October the company was approved for listing on the OTC BB and announced a partnership with IBM to bundle Dr. Bean with IBM S/390 Multiprise 3000 servers as part of IBM's Enterprise Growth Offering. The company has major partnerships with IBM, Sun Microsystems , Oracle and AT&T. Sideware and its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Sideware Corporation, plans to open offices in 17 cities across North America in the next year. They employed 50 people in August, 80 today and estimate they will be employing 1000 a year from now. Last week two New York investment brokers were in North Vancouver to visit the company and a major announcement is rumoured to be slated for this week. A news story on BCTV's Newshour twigged me to the company and I liked the story so much I went out and bought some Friday, even though it had just gained 236%. You know I'll be watching this one closely!