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To: ratan lal who wrote (28297)	7/18/2000 5:42:37 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Respond to of 54805

NO. Anyone can do file conversion, on the fly, on the wasp, on the eagle doesnt really matter. Cant patent it. File conersions are done all the time. 1. Templated, on-the-fly (i.e. on demand), of any file format? There are other products that can rip apart any file type you want and deliver it in an arbitrarily structured way? On any OS? 2. All the time? Show me. I bet most of the examples you come up with are actually our technology under the hood. 3. No one else has done it. 4. File conversion itself is not any more patentable than mobile communications. But really slick implementations are eminently patentable. No standard required since you are deciding what format to convert FROM and TO. Wrong. Large amounts of information travels both internally and externally. The formats are not fixed. Having an architecture that is flexible and maintainable is very important. What do you do when you upgrade your authoring tools? Rewrite every conversion? What do you do when your partners change tools? NO. a few engineers from India could do it in 30-days or less at $5 (high end) per hour per engineer. Or you could assign it to SIFY or INFY for a fixed price. Put in bonus for early completion and you will see miracles. If you mean a single format to some other single format, yes. But if you mean many to many formats in a way that is maintainable and upgradable, then you're way off. Throwing code at a problem is always a poor solution. And I think you underestimate by many orders of magnitude the complexity of the problem. I'd be happy to expound (or rant) some more about this, if you like. Nice try though, Tom CF