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To: Mike Winn who wrote (8639)	1/8/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Money Mood	Respond to of 31646

A GRAIN OF COMMON SENSE (current situation & price-movements discussion): "Hope this helps explain the HUGE difference between TPRO and all other "Y2K Companies." Zebra365 Message 3126059 " Since we know that TPRO was working its base business full bore in 2Q, we can assume that most revenues came from the base business, not the CD." K.Dronic Message 3114902 "Adding 30 engineers indicates to me that the mix is rapidly changing to consulting service" K.Drobnic Message 3114739 "Very interesting development from my research on potential Embedded Systems problems" Jack Zahran Message 3120500 "Innovest rated TPRO a BUY" C.K. Houston Message 3121112 "Clarification of 12/19 press release" C.K. Houston Message 3088332 "These are some random musings gathered from a meeting I attended in South America last week." SKipard Message 3053326 "Comments on the S-3/A:" Jack Zahran Message 3038233 "I'll sum up by saying that I think the press release suffers from some poor writing in places" Biffpincus Message 3017911 "Within this news release Jenkins told us some additional very valuable information: ORDERS will exceed 28 Mil for 2nd half FY98" Jack Zahran Message 3012996 NOTE: Discussion refers to orders, not revenue (See following link). "Here is the clarification-- Topro had new orders or bookings from July 1st through December of 28,000,000." Jan Maccabe Message 3037831 "As far as your $.08 per share calculation--I dont have any problem with it" JDN Message 3025215 "The $28 million figure is likely to be low" K. Drobnic Message 3027226 "The company has been through a lot of growing pains, and I think they're just now arriving at consistent methods of showing their financial picture" K. Drobnic Message 3030705 "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. Drobnick Message 2911464

To: Mike Winn who wrote (8639)	1/8/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Re: You can have programmers sitting in your company office cranking up thousand lines of code per hour and you can charge at least $1.00/LOC. Mike: You just lost me there. I agree that 160/hr is not all that much. Several years ago when I worked at Oracle, I was charged out for at least that much, but who, other then silver-bullet tool vendors base there daily or hourly rate on LOC. Please clarify? ... no wait ... never mind. I'm pretty good as a contractor, but I do not crank out 1K lines per hours. If I were lucky I might be able to read this many line per hour. At first I was sympathetic since many people beat you up rather then argue with your points but now I am beginning to see why. Regards Tom ps: apologies to the thread for responding to this guy, I will not do it again. Sakra! I broke ny resolution #312 posted in the FBNA clubhouse. Pss: cost of lodging, transportation, phone bill, per diem pay, is normally on top of hourly rate. psss: I personally know of projects put on hold until y2k is resolved within the organization. So why are they hiring more people? Look at the skill set they are asking for and you will understand.