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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2968)	10/23/2000 6:35:50 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

Re: Where do we go from here? This post on yahoo sums up curretn sentiment on aplx. messages.yahoo.com by: roosterly 10/23/00 2:43 pm Msg: 15821 of 15824 As I said before there isn't enough of transparency. You usually get this when the facts aren't good. The deal sizes are way too small. To prosper you have to have enterprize size deals, Deals of $1million and up. $50,000 deals will not do. I also gathered they are getting deals by "catering to the specific needs of different customers", this takes too much of the resources. It is best to have great standard product that you sell to a lot of people. Take your software and tweek it to needs of different customers for small deal sizes does not make money. I am not blaming the present management. The time to make moves were 3 years ago. As seibel gains acceptance it becomes more and more to compete with. Customers want a software that has scale. It is the Apple story, Apple could have compete with microsoft at certain early times, but not anymore, Microsift is the standard now. Of course I listened to CC. Rooster Tom Watson tosiwmee