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Technology Stocks : Keane The leading y2k service provider -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (195)	12/3/1997 11:02:00 PM
From: Hoatzin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1316

Roger, I am a long-time KEA holder and former employee, and have met Mr. Keane. (I also happen have a small position in BROC.) Is his appointment to the BROC board good news for us? I think so. As I posted on the BROC thread, he can open a lot of doors. I also think he is honest, capable and charismatic. He built KEA from a one-person body shop to whatever size it is today ($600 million revenues, 8,000 employees?) He is at least 66 years old now, and I believe he is transitioning his day-to-day responsibilities at KEA over to his two sons. So, it would be understandable if he a took a few cozy outside director posts with his buddies in Boston. The fact that he has gone outside his backyard, to a company that is hardly in the mainstream of the technologies that Keane uses, tells me that he thinks there is something interesting at BROC (or that the BROC director perquisites are way too generous! ) Howver, I really think it is too early to answer your question about any "deal" between the two companies. I am not aware of KEA making any claims of SFA expertise (although it is quite possible they have some), and I don't know enough about the help-desk outsourcing activities to comment on any fit with BROC from that aspect. Kevin