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To: DAN WONG who wrote (7291)	12/15/1997 10:15:00 AM
From: Money Mood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

A GRAIN OF COMMON SENSE (current situation & price-movements discussion): "TPRO is a "service" business which is usually defined by 50% or more of revenues derived from billable time." Gegs Message 2957543 "Interesting observation about service businesses. I think they are valued less by the Street because margin improvement is so difficult." Zebra365 Message 2958312 "Finally, you have the consulting companies that are starting to offer Y2K as an additional service....these companies already know how to implement the "full project life cyle"..."I believe these companies (TPRO) have the best chance to succeed through and past the year 2000. " Gegs Message 2961600 "Valuing growth by acquisition:" Karl Drobnic Message 2937463 "Growth by acquisition 2:" Karl Drobnic Drobnic : Message 2938063 "a few people predicted that we might drop below 6 for a short period of time" Jan Maccabe Message 2947716 "Scott L's take on marginability" biffpincus Message 2934530 "why would a company spend 7000 dollars for Topro's CD, when they could go directly to the manufacturer and have them do the fix." Jack Zahran Message 2920265 "Besides factory automation, TPRO is one of the few companies dealing with Y2K problems in the embedded systems." C.K. Houston Message 2926483 "The reason why it isn't higher are a few:" Jack Zahran Message 2908439 "The number of factory sites at the companies TPRO is negotiating with moved up to 3,850 since the Nov. 14 conference call. But the total number of companies moved down slightly" K. Drobnic Message 2911464