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Technology Stocks : VeriSign (VRSN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (901)	3/4/2000 10:29:00 AM
From: HoyaBob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1285

VRSN STOCK SPLIT?: Rightline Split Report predicts VRSN is now headed for a split, but does not know the event that will trigger this move. Price seems so high now -- does anybody have a feel for possible split date? Has it ever split before, and if so, at what price? Thanks for help.

To: AugustWest who wrote (901)	3/5/2000 1:50:00 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 1285

CEOLive.com -- Securing the Killer App Is Job One, Says VeriSign CEO in Interview With IT Radio Network LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2000--In a recent interview with the newly launched eBusiness audio Webzine IT Radio Network, VeriSign Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN - news) President & CEO Stratton Sclavos discussed the role of security in B-to-B eCommerce. Stratton said: ``Today, we're securing the network. In fact, most of them (B-to-B companies) use our Web site services already, and we're securing their servers and allowing encrypted channels from the supplier to the buyer network.' Sclavos also discussed VeriSign's plans to extend its services in the B-to-B market. ``What we really want to do is build out a whole set of turnkey services for B-to-B exchanges and vertical market makers,' said Sclavos. ``We want to go to them and say we will give you buyer and seller credentials, payment services, digital receipts, digital archiving and secure message services for things like encrypted pill presentment and bill payment.' VeriSign's Digital Signature Technology helps make these transactions secure. Stratton emphasized that its prominence in both the B-to-C and B-to-B markets lends it an advantage against traditional competitors like Entrust (Nasdaq:ENTU - news) and Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq:BALT - news) and larger players like GTE (NYSE:GTE - news) and IBM (NYSE:IBM - news), who are also staking claims in the digital signature/certificate arena. VeriSign's history with Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) and Netscape (NYSE:AOL - news) also help it remain competitive. To hear the complete interview, visit www.ITRadioNetwork.com. About IT Radio Network IT Radio Network is an online audio business magazine that features a daily dose of tech trends, company spotlights and one-on-one interviews with the very people reshaping the world of technology. The site is produced by Sky Radio, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterRep Information and Communication Services Inc., which produces radio programs for online magazines, a network of corporate Web sites, several major airline carriers and CEOLive.com. Also appearing on the IT Radio Network are Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL - news), Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT - news), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW - news), Interwoven (Nasdaq:IWOV - news), Sprint PCS (NYSE:PCS - news), Forrester Research (Nasdaq:FORR - news), Meta Group (Nasdaq:METG - news), Gartner Group (NYSE:IT - news) and InformationWeek (NYSE:CTP - news). Upcoming guests include Dell (Nasdaq:DELL - news), PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT - news), PSINet (Nasdaq:PSIX - news), Corio and Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news). -- A while back, when the Gorilla Game first came out, I was ridiculed on the SI board for suggesting VRSN was a gorilla. It seems like the followers of the book thought an internet company couldn't have a discontinuous innovation, as if they even knew what it was (they claim they know since they invented it, while in fact it was a term often used by Deming, the tru author of the f* manual. Now there is a revised edition of the book, especially for internets. No mention of vrsn, though. But vrsn is the gorilla of the internet in my opinion. I think there stock is undervalued even if you only consider their certificate business. Not only are sales increasing, but each sale is a recurring sale. But the real value of vrsn is that they are perfectly positioned to deliver the web's killer app. And company wanting to participate in b2b must deal with vrsn first. And vrsn now showing they don't want to you go somewhere else afterwards.