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To: jan m. who wrote (8282)	1/3/1998 4:47:00 PM
From: Mike Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Jan, Sorry, I have mistated the contract announcements by other Y2K vendors. It's true that a lot of Y2K companies announce contracts without the dollar amount but the contracts with those legitimate firms are awarded contracts, meaning they are now paid to do the work. When a company announces a pilot project, it doesn't mean anything. XYZ company just tells ABC company to give a free assessment and the contract MAY or MAY NOT be awarded. When I work for large Fortune 500 companies, there are always all kind of offer for free work from vendors, and since the engineers always like to look at new toys, they invite them in to give free presentations and loan out equipment. But it takes a long time before a contract is awarded and may be 1 out of 50 companies that offer pilot project gets awarded with a contract.

To: jan m. who wrote (8282)	1/3/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

MW, "every single contract"? You state quite boldly that every single contract annopunced by IMRS, CBSL, SYNT and KEA is always a real contract with real dollars. I have been following these companies for over one year, and statement of a dollar figure is a rare exception. And in the instances when a dollar figure is mentioned, the term of the contract is not. You very much are out of your league on this one my friend. Let me give you the challenge I regularly give to the skeptics who scoff at y2k revenues: Name the last 5 KEA contracts and the exact dollar amounts associated with each. Good luck. KEA has signed 400+ y2k contracts, but there are less than 12 announcements that I have been able to find. If you can find even 10% of the contract annoucnements, then I will leave SI forever. Mike, you seem to be an expert in so many things, now i udnerstand you are an expert in everfy single type of medical device with an embedded chip. I am sure we will be hearing soon about your expertise in nuclear energy. I know you won't disappoint us. DocStone