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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Centura Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CNTR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Veiko Herne who wrote (1811)	11/4/1997 3:06:00 PM
From: MENSO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2428

>>> Seems You are not in Cuba <<< First you talked about starting another world war and now you talk about Cuba. Hmmmmm... Are you guys smuggling nuclear missiles into Cuba again ?!... Just kidding, Veiko. Honest ! >>> termination won't be so bad <<< Forgive me, Veiko, but I think you are missing the point. Centura's tools may in fact be the greatest in the world but nobody knows about them. As a tools-only company Centura would not see the new year. As a database-only company SQLbase may be the greatest thing since peanut butter; but if Centura has to sell its tools to survive, SQLbase may as well be sold along with them. There is syngergy (to use Gary's word!) between the two. In my opinion if Centura decides to sell its tools but keeps SQLbase the product will eventually also wither and die. In my very humble opinion (and I can not overemphasize this), Centura's promise lied in its plan to LEVERAGE its world-wide customer base and rapidly aging but well-liked products to make a grand entrance into the Web-enabled application and database market. Centura had the right idea in my opinion, but after the merger failed the company lost focus and the implementation of the idea went all wrong after that. If Centura can no longer sell ForeSite, you can bet me another bottle of something (you never told me what and still owe me) that it will have to come up with reasons why it really never needed ForeSite in the first place, or why some other middleware product suddenly makes more sense. To believe that Centura can survive in the new Internet and Intranet centered paradigm of application development as an aging C/S company would not be totally irrational in my opinion. As someone correctly pointed out to me this morning, it doesn't matter if the refrigerator market is mature, refrigerators continue to sell well. But to believe that the company will actually thrive, well, that would be delusional in my oppinion. >>> or you have found another paragraph << Are you saying that nowhere in the contract does it state that Centura has to pay its bills ?... >>> If Centura will make more efforts to market Tomahawk, which is ahead of competitors products << What are you talking about ? How can Tomahawk be ahead of its competitors products when it has not been released yet and, if you were to believe Centura's own Web site, it may in fact not be released until Spring of 1998. I provided instructions several weeks ago on where to find this info on Centura's Web site, perhaps you missed it. >>> Anyway, I won't believe You << Am I supposed to care if you don't believe me or something ? Veiko, I posted what I knew -- and at great personal risk I may add -- because I felt it was the ethical thing to do. It means nothing to me whether you choose to believe it or not. Good luck to you.