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To: nokomis who wrote (113289)	9/5/2000 8:16:32 PM
From: tony sidhu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 120523

nokomis, what is the chart of BVSN saying now? I bought into it on friday but didn't sell..back to almost breakeven. thanks tony

To: nokomis who wrote (113289)	9/5/2000 8:17:37 PM
From: mark joyce	Respond to of 120523

Okafine: I like to bottom fish using charts - as OJ has said many times - the charts don't lie! (but you gotta watch the fast moving ones closely)...<VBG> ..(I use ALL my fingers!) I agree charts don't lie. What key indicators do you use to separate the bottom feeders from the flying fish. (Good analogies be damned.)

To: nokomis who wrote (113289)	9/5/2000 9:07:14 PM
From: Susan G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

A Kinder, Gentler B-to-B? Industry Standard, 09/5/2000 20:05 XML, CXML, ebXML, SGML - the Internet is drowning in a veritable alphabet soup of business-to-business protocols. On Wednesday, Ariba, IBM and Microsoft will announce a new initiative designed to help companies speak the same language. It's called UDDI. The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Project is designed to provide a central registry for businesses to locate information on how to communicate online with other businesses. The three founders hope that the project will accelerate business on the Internet and demand for their products and services. "The three companies shared an understanding that there was some underlying infrastructure missing that would be helpful in accelerating the adoption of b-to-b e-commerce," says Marie Wieck, IBM's director of e-markets infrastructure. "We were looking for a way to help with the acceleration." The companies came up with the idea for a kind of telephone book for the Web where companies of any size will be able to publish three types of information in the UDDI registry. White pages will include the company's name, address and standard contact information. Yellow pages will have a description of the products and services that the company offers. And "green pages" will include information about the protocols that companies use to conduct business online. The registry will be open to any organization. The first draft of the specifications to be listed in the green pages will be posted here on Wednesday. The specs will be based on core Internet standards, including TCP/IP, HTML, XML and other open-industry protocols. The idea is not to create an online directory where a purchasing manager at, say, a chemical company could look up which companies sell benzene and conduct business using the CXML protocol. Rather, the founders envision that the information in the registry will be used by third parties, including online marketplaces, to create services to facilitate e-commerce. Today, a company doing business on a chemical exchange might post a request for price quote on benzene and get five bids. The buyer might choose the lowest bid, but in most cases, it would call the supplier and handle the transaction offline because the two companies systems aren't able to communicate electronically. The founders of the UDDI registry hope that the chemical marketplace will make information in the registry available in a way that allows the buyer's back-office purchasing system to automatically look up what protocol the seller's computers use. The buyer's system then would send an electronic purchase order in the proper format so that the deal can be consummated online. Ariba, IBM and Microsoft have rounded up more than 20 other companies, including Commerce One, Internet Capital Group, SAP, Sun Microsystems, and VerticalNet, to support the new registry. The group plans to have a beta of the registry up in 30 days. They will run the registry for the next 12 to 18 months then turn it over to a standards body. thestandard.com