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To: Quad Sevens who wrote (7755)	12/22/1997 8:18:00 PM
From: Raj Ramaswamy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Wade, Saw this note in MF/AOL :-) Subject: Scott's email to me.... Date: Mon, Dec 22, 1997 18:18 EST From: Biffpincus Message-id: <19971222231801.SAA25086@ladder01.news.aol.com> Subj: Re: a couple of thoughts about the press release.... Date: 97-12-22 16:37:25 EST From: Liolios@PacificGP.com (Scott Liolios) Reply-to: Liolios@PacificGP.com To: Biffpincus@AOL.COM (Biffpincus) Hello David, Thank you for your note on the Wall Street Journal idea. I have worked with the journal before with marginal results at best. However we will look into the opportunity because I have heard they are seeing better response as of late. Thank you. The $28 Million in the press release is a number that comes out of a sales meeting when the company was trying to forecast the first half of 1998. The number includes both SI (core) and Y2K work. Thank you for your input on the press release, I will see if we can be more explicit with our "trump card". Thank you for your interest. J. Scott Liolios Biffpincus wrote: > Scott, > > There has been discussion on line about the wording of the press release. > > Specifically, the mention of the 28 million revenue figure for the 1st half of > '98 has raised a lot of confusion. > > Can you tell us exactly what that figure represents. Is is core business > alone or does it also include y2k remediation work as well (including the > Bristol contract). > > Secondly, some of us beleive that the press release was unnecessarily vague in > describing the special niche of the market that TPRO controls. > > Specifically, since "embedded systems" is TPRO's bread and butter specialty, > and is what differentiates TPRO from other Y2k software and code providers, we > were curious if that trump card of ours couldn't be more prominently displayed > in future press releases. > > For example, the Technology Director of Unilever recently said the costs of > tackling the Y2k bug were soaring because of the scale of the problem ..... > particularly concerning so-called "embedded" chips - microchips installed deep > in manufacturing equipment and computer systems whose software has to be > checked line by line and, if necessary, rewritten. > > Anderson said: "The challenge isn't because it is intellectually > difficult, but because there are just billions of things to be done. > It's the sheer scale of the task and the relatively small number of > people in the world qualified to do the work. (read TPRO [my emphasis])" > > Shouldn't TPRO be identifying itself as one of few "embedded systems" solution > providers that exist in the world? A couple of extra sentences should do the > trick and would brand TPRO as THE place to call for this specific service. > Any thoughts? > > As usual, I will post your response to the different boards..... > > As always, thanks again for your help, > > David Raj