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To: Jack Ucci who wrote (895)	2/10/2000 4:05:00 AM
From: David Israel-Rosen	Respond to of 898

Hi Jack most of the posters are on <Yahoo. This one is clealry on the way up.

To: Jack Ucci who wrote (895)	2/15/2000 1:57:00 AM
From: Michael Paul Langley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 898

High Tech Features After 540% Rise in Six Months, Everybody Knows Who's BOS By Eliav Alalof People have been saying lots of bad things about the boom in technology shares, yet the boom also has some positive aspects. For one thing, it unearths the hidden value of companies that usually get hardly any attention whatsoever. A case in point is BOS (Better Online Solutions), whose share has risen 540% to $11.5 within six months, while trading in the share has jumped from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars. By now there's no doubt that something's cooking at BOS. BOS's traditional operation of manufacturing software for IBM's AS/400 computers is still generating real income - $19 million in Q3 1999. But that isn't likely to wow anyone. What is likely to make your mouth water is the fact that BOS has holdings in several start-up companies and some interesting business ties with Texas Instruments, Intel, Nokia, Daewoo, Nintendo and NEC. The first intriguing start-up is Surf, a maker of softmodems. A softmodem is a modem that operates with out hardware. Six months ago, Surf completed its first financing round at a company value of $25 million before money. Investors included Intel, Texas Instruments and Israeli venture capital fund Polaris. Surf will integrate its product in several systems, including Nintendo online game, Nokia cellular handsets, and Texas Instruments and NEC chips. BOS currently owns 27.8% of the company, which is headed by Dr. Amnon Gavish. It is believed that Surf will hold an IPO on NASDAQ this year, and that it is already negotiating with leading investment houses. BOS also has a holding in Lynk, which is due to release its new Internet product at the end of the month. The product in question is Internet telephony software which selects for two people making an Internet call the optimum route over the Internet, so as to ensure best-quality communication. The software's distinctive feature is its miniature size - 45 kilobytes, just the size of an Internet image - which makes it possible to install it in a few seconds. The customer may install the software in his computer, or link up to the system through a toll-free number (1-800), and receive the service from one of Lynk's five sites in the US. The company also announced a few months ago that it was launching e-TeleLynk, a product aimed at e-commerce businesses. It enables consumers to talk to businesses when they place orders. As far as is known, the company has signed a distribution agreement for this product with Korean company Daewoo. But in its traditional field too, BOS has not been resting on its laurels. Last June it bought a US marketing company. It has recently started selling Printboss, printing software which connects to any computer platform, enabling any company to produce all its printed material, including checks, insurance policies, forms, technical literature, and so forth. Checks? Yes, BOS's product is even capable of printing the magnetic ink on the check. "Globes" has learned that the company is negotiating with several large software houses to integrate its product into the ERP and CRM products they market, as these systems do not lay great stress on print quality. Another product the company brought out at the end of 1999 was called e-Twin@X Controller, a product for AS/400 communications applications vis-a-vis end users (AS/400s work on client/server architecture). The product facilitates high speed, reliable data transfer between large numbers of users, as well as endowing AS400 terminals with PC features, such as Internet connections. Here the company competes with Jacada, recently floated on Wall Street, which focuses on the graphic interface - windows on the work screen, and a mouse. BOS claims its product is better and more comprehensive than Jacada's, but at present the latter is traded at a market value of $500 million, five times that of BOS. Published by Israel's Business Arena on February 14, 2000