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To: stock bull who wrote (152962)	2/3/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

SB - What are you doing today? Playing in the backyard with my pre-school daughter, enjoying the first warm day in a week or so here in Houston... But that's not what you meant... After selling out of the controls business (to my partners), I developed a consulting practice and got into disk and network controller design in the early 80s (my education is really semiconductor design although I did a lot of graduate work in software areas). That led to work on drivers, which in turn led to work on operating systems, and in the mid-80s I contributed to the development of several of the Unix variants including HP-UX and SunOS (which was replaced by Solaris). That work in turn led me into optimization of the OS for database work, and then to work on the database engines themselves. I did a fair amount of work on Sybase and Oracle systems, both in performance optimization and also core query processing, but always as a consultant. When Sun and Sybase began to make heavy inroads into New York financial accounts in the early 90s I started doing work directly for the big financial houses, initially in database and data transfer but later in more general EFT areas. There was a whole lot of other stuff thrown into the mix over that time but those were the core trends. By the mid-90s I had managed to salt away enough, and had made enough good investments (mostly CPQ, MSFT, INTC, SUNW and ORCL) that I wanted to slow down - I sold out the consulting business to my staff and, along with 2 of my former employees, pretty much run a lone wolf operation today, working with a few of my favorite financial clients and shooting for 20 to 30 hours a week. I do occasional stints for technology companies as well, usually "peer review" of projects or business proposals which last 3 to 5 days... those are fun and I get to keep my hand in on what's happening in the business. I have also done a bit of VC stuff, mostly helping to analyze the real state or prospects of companies they want to invest in.