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To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (724)3/29/2001 1:27:50 PM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 811
 
"There is a successful shorter on SI who seeks out all companies that promote their products are 'Best of Breed' as shorting opportunities."

A funny approach - but I wouldn't short a software company with a price/sales ratio below one. A competitor, SQSW, has been acquired last week for a P/S of about 9 in cash by CTXS, and SQSW had a loss of $21 million on sales of $20 million in 2000, much worse than EXLN.
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The days of euphoria have long gone after the 95% drop from the top. On the Yahoo! board the focus is no longer the "space suits" but company survival, chapter 11 threat, bridge loans.

I wait for the day when EXLN gets the rest of the company to execute like their product developers seem to be doing.

Add me, too. The next days will be interesting. Some people expect a flood of warnings by B2B companies. Good that the Gerard Klauer Mattison analyst expectation, for instance, is just $14.4 million for the Q1 revenue.



To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (724)4/12/2001 1:57:54 AM
From: hasbeen101  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 811
 
Bob,

My old school (and your old customer!) used to have a subject based on ObjectStore called "Next Generation Database Systems". Check out:

cse.unsw.edu.au

The subject has been re-named "E-Commerce" Technologies", and is based on Java and RDBMS. The school's mainstream DBMS subjects are based on Oracle.

It looks like they took the hint (from EXLN) and decided that ObjectStore was going nowhere.

What a terrible waste the past 2 years have been.