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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Saflink Corp. (ESAF) Biometric Software Provider -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sheldon C. who wrote (2503)	12/14/1997 9:29:00 PM
From: Jaffo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4676

To All: Here's a couple of msgs from Mr. G and Mr. S/W Guru: ************************************ Mr. G's msg: Thanks for the note--The publication of HAAPI is an attempt to try to establish an industry standard to make it easy for any application programmer to use any biometric device in any program or application. Of course, NRI has already made or is making it's application programs HAAPI compliant. This means that SAF/NT, SAF/IIS, SAF/TNG and whatever is the next product NRI offers to the marketplace will provide the following opportunities; 1. NRI will be able to "qualify" and potentially resell all types of biometrics to resellers and end-users. NRI already works with KeyTronic, Identix, Identicator, Cross Check, and Veridicom for finger image hardware. NRI works with Cogent and Veridicom for finger image algorithms. NRI has already integrated products from a Voice verification company and from a face verification company. NRI will announce licensing and reseller agreements at a later date. 2. NRI can now license its proprietary SAF Series of products to other biometric vendors, VARS, System integrators, OEM computer vendors to integrate their biometric hardware and software and then resell the resultant product(paying NRI a royalty). Other vendors are already in discussions with NRI----the reason is HAAPI---by making NRI products HAAPI compliant it is easy for a biometric vendor to integrate their particular technology into NRI's SAF product---the result---the vendor is HAPPY and NRI is happy. best regards---jg ******************************** Mr. S/W Guru offers: From the API document (what I've read so far) and Mr. G.'s e-mail, this is the way I see it: NRI will be able to integrate face-imaging, speech-recognition and finger-imaging biometrics into Unicenter TNG, SAF/Windows, NT, the SII product, etc. In short, by acting as a "centralized" software company, NRI will be able to receive revenue from these other companies, regardless of that type of biometrics they employ, by doing the application software. Example: Biometric company "A" has a face-recognition device for $175, but cannot do Windows NT, Unicenter TNG, or the internet (SII). NRI says, "We'll integrate your product with our existing applications and resell it for $200". Result: NRI gets $25 for each unit sold for that company. Do this with a number of companies, and you can see that there's some serious potentials in revenues here - many millions of dollars. The vendor can simply select which biometric product he/she wants, and NRI will sell it to them. No matter what type of biometric is involved... The second thing involved here is application programming, mentioned in Mr. G.'s e-mail. The API standard makes it very easy for software types to integrate biometrics into any product. Very smart thinking...it wouldn't take any time at all for NRI to intergate their API with any companiy's product and they make money off of other companies... regards, ****************************************** All comments are welcome... Jaffo