To: Rande Is who wrote (18253 ) 1/7/2000 9:16:00 PM From: Sye Walsh Respond to
Here's something interesting:Founded in 1983, Active Voice (NASDAQ: ACVC) is the world's largest independent supplier of PC-based voice messaging solutions. The company has been awarded nine U.S. patents, and one in Canada, for such voice processing and computer telephony technology as the ability to interact with an incoming caller via a PC, unique call screening technology, and the detection of telephone signaling tones. Active Voice products have been awarded Product of the Year and Editor's Choice by Teleconnect, Computer Telephony, Call Center, CTI, Voice Processing, and Personal Computing magazines while the company itself has been acknowledged for corporate excellence by Software, Inc., Forbes, and Business Week magazines. Float = aprox 5 mil .Unity is a Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R)-based communications server that delivers voice mail, fax, and unified messaging in a truly unified environment. Unity gives users the ability to access voice, fax, and e-mail messages from their desktop PC, via touchtone telephone, or over the Internet. Unity's superior "true unified messaging" architecture minimizes installation, administration, and support costs -- making life easier for system administrators and lowering an organization's total cost of ownership. Unity is "convergence-ready" and will simultaneously support both Internet Protocol (IP) and traditional telephone systems -- making it a smart investment for organizations planning to embrace IP telephony. "We are seeing strong revenue growth in our core products, especially in our strategic partner business reflecting our strategy of increasing market share by partnering with telephone switch manufacturers to provide affordable, feature-rich embedded and PC-based voice processing solutions," said Jose S. David, Active Voice's chief financial officer. "We also saw growth in Repartee sales in our dealer channel. Gross margins increased to 58.8% from 53.7% in the September 30, 1998 quarter because of an increased sales mix of software-only products. Expenses were in line with management's expectations," David added. Active Voice Corporation and Lucent Enter into Cross Licensing Agreement for Messaging Technology [press release]NEC Corporation Exercises Warrant to Buy Active Voice Corporation Common Stock [press release]
