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To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (68667)	12/26/1999 1:02:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not really an extremely short-term investor, Sam. While I was hoping APLX would have popped by now, I am not ready to sell it without making a profit on it. While I will admit that the very short-term chart doesn't look good, APLX has the best office suite for Linux, has won industry awards, and is still really cheap. I don't really understand why Red Hat and especially Corel have soared ahead of the rest of the group, but I do think open operating systems are gaining in popularity. APLX also has non-Linux products which are hot; Charles Schwab just bought one of them. A little longer term analysts still consider it a buy. I am aware of VectorVest, but consider it a bit confusing because their recommendations are completely short term. If you subscribe, though, they are really tops at isolating very strong growth stocks while they are still under $20.00. Here is some recent news on APLX from Yahoo. Even the December 23 Individual Investor article which posits that Microsoft will develop Linux software lists APLX as the best play, probably because it is still inexpensive: biz.yahoo.com If it were clear to me that I should sell APLX now I certainly would; you and some other people have forwarded interesting suggestions on new buys. But I have hurt myself in the past cannibalizing basically good choices by selling too soon, so I am a little more cautious. And I welcome comments on APLX, if anyone else here has invested in it. Is your health worsening, Sam? I have been worried about you for several years because everything seemed so precarious, but you keep plugging along somehow.