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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Ableson who wrote (4527)	2/13/2000 8:47:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Mark, Like I just said, do you really think that fuller/cowpland have played all of their cards yet? If they are not telling the whole truth and know other things going on, I'll be the first to join a class action suit against them. You are concluding based only on what you have seen thus far and what I am trying to tell you is that there is a much bigger plan ahead (I hope!) and as the plan unfolds, you will then know whose ideas are "erroneous". You are basing your investment on hope not fact. You have no basis in known facts to surmise a great plan. If you are saying that fuller and cowpland don't know what they are doing, It's obvious the Cowpland knows what he is doing. The juries out on Fuller. then that would contradict the fact that they have survived during all these years in their battles with MSFT. Dale survived an IPO or two but I hardly think that constitutes a war with MSFT. Maybe they just suddenly turned stupid... Evidence would suggest that it was not sudden. Tom

To: Mark Ableson who wrote (4527)	2/13/2000 11:24:00 PM
From: Maher Sid-Ahmed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Mark: you cannot invest on hope and wishes. Dale Fuller is either extremely stupid or is totally unaware of what a "merger of equals" entails. The new company is going to called Corel and its symbol CORL. Why not we call the new company Borland. A "merger of equals" require change in both name and symbol. It requires that a new board be formed. It requires that both CEO's have active rolls in managing the new entity. This is a takeover not a merger. A take over at an extremely low share price relative to the potential of INPR in the enterprise solution business. Corl's CEO is not trusted by Wall Street and has been portrayed by the Canadian media as Don Quixote who wants to save the world from evil so he ordered his only faithful servant to charge at the evil windmills in every direction. Cowpland will misuse the $200 million of INPR and I am willing to bet that later he will sell all the Scotts Valley campus to further his dream of conquering Microsoft. He has too many negatives and an extremely poor track record to be the CEO of the "merged" companies. Dale Fuller, on the other hand, is a resume builder. Later on he will brag that he took INPR from a capitalization of $200 million to over a billion and then sold it to Corel. Whatever happens later on, he can ether take partial credit to, if it turns out OK or blame it on the new management if things turn sour.