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To: angel who wrote (1657)	12/23/1997 11:13:00 AM
From: Trader X	Respond to of 3391

If I may, angel...try to explain. The reason no other REPUTABLE Y2K company claims to be fully automated, is like an auto maker trying to say that it's car is fully automated. Yes, you can start the car and put in gear, and put a brick on the accellerator, and the car will go by itself. Is that fully automated? If you were CSGI, it would be! The problem is, you have to involve people in the conversion process to ensure it's reliability. What company wants to hand over a hundred million lines of code to a company who isn't going to babysit that code personally to ensure that it comes out clean? Woo Whee! CSGI is getting a 3 million line contract! 3 million lines is NOTHING. It's another friggin test. Test test test...nobody trusts this method of converting code. That's the bottom line. CSGI was started to bilk investors out of millions in hopes of riding the Y2K craze to the moon. Only problem was, it never achieved the hieghts it was reaching for--the foul smell of rotten fish kept smart investors far away. I do congradulate "tech/charatures ad nausium" for his persistence. Nobody would do this without getting some compensation for it. why, indeed! -Kevin

To: angel who wrote (1657)	12/23/1997 11:13:00 AM
From: tech	Respond to of 3391

angel, listen to Kevin. Please don't buy any shares of ConSyGen. Go play with VIAS, PTUS, SEEC, etc. see you in mid Jan. when you come back here and wonder why the stock went up more than 100%. (just like I said it would)

To: angel who wrote (1657)	12/27/1997 3:48:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

Angel - Can you please explain why VIAS is not fully automated. Does that mean their and PTUS and SEEC technology is worse than CSGI? That is how I interpret your thoughts. I also interpret that you think those three companies did not spend enough time to become fully automated. Because it's not possible for anyone to fully automate this process. Even when we attempt to narrow the discussion to just focusing on the smallest & simplest step---code remediation/fixing---it is absolutely, positively impossible to fully automate fixing large amounts of code. Just cannot be done. The marketing types can claim 'fully automated' as much as they want... it's just not possible... there are just too many twists & turns in code. Real world example: I used to market a set of IBM mainframe code analysis tools. They read source code (COBOL programs, copybooks & JCL) into a central data dictionary/repository. Even after 12+ years in the field, it was our experience that when we installed these products at a new site, they would choke (blowup) on code features we'd never encountered before. That's just the nature of code. - David