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To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (16734)	1/27/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Eliz2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

What a wild market! Could it be that we are on our way at last? I guess I will have to stop buying these goofy stocks like Utek & 8x8 and get something good like CPQ. It looks good from here. I am going to wait for split for MSFT I think . I hate to buy at the high, not used to it as I don't trade that much. Have a lot of what I viewed as a no go with tel stks but now wow! BTW, Who was that masked man? gg I know I am quick on the trigger gg . Good thing there are smoothies on this thread Hope this continues, Its like a guessing game. Is there going to be a split? Is my choice going to buy another co.? Is CEO going to resign? is our CEO{PRES} going to resign? Like tune in tomorrow Promises to be a thrill a minute. FOREVER INTEL Eliz

To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (16734)	1/28/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: TechnoWiz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27012

Hi Sonny: I tend to agree with your comments as far as replacing Bubba. You know the old expression, the one you know is better than the one you don't and if the reps bring him down, it could come back to haunt them in any number of ways. They might just get what they deserve. In any case, I thought he made an outstanding presentation under the circumstances and the true test of a leader is one who doesn't break under the strain and it doesn't get much worse than being caught in the glare of the headlights! Thought you might be interested in this: I have another news story about some old boy computer scientist type from Texas who had a hand in inventing cobalt (ancient programming language that 2000 prob cptrs run on, has also invented a relatively simple solution as well. Necessity is the mother of invention and Y2K problem will spawn many. A self-help fix for Year 2000 bug By Reuters January 27, 1998, 5:20 a.m. PT CANBERRA--A small Australian computer software company said today that it had developed an easy, cheap, do-it-yourself solution to the millennium bug problem. Inforsoft, a six-month-old company based in the Australian capital of Canberra, said the Info 2000 program was designed for the corporate sector and was available for about one-third of the cost of alternatives. Many companies now use consultants to fix the millennium bug or chose the time-consuming process of going through programs themselves. Info 2000 would cost about $107,200 compared to the $335,000 cost of using a consultant to install a similar program, Inforsoft managing director Arnold Cummins said. "With this, it really strikes the right sort of middle way, so that it's neither labor intensive at the organization nor cost intensive in terms of having an outsider do it for you," Cummins told Reuters. The package is aimed at fixing the programming flaw in which some computers, recognizing years by only the last two digits, mistakenly read the year 2000 as the year 1900. The error, known as the millennium or Year 2000 bug, could make computers malfunction or shut down and has led to fears of electronic chaos at the start of 2000. Cummins said Inforsoft had formed a partnership with U.S. computer company CompuWare (CPWR) to further the development and marketing of its program worldwide. He said the potential sales value of products in the corporate market was well over $33 million and the Info 2000 program was expected to win a significant share of this. "I don't think that we would be the first ever to come up with this particular approach, but I do think that in the field we're talking about, with the corporate systems we're talking about, I do think it's pretty unique," Cummins said. He said the company would particularly concentrate on marketing the program in the United Kingdom and Asia. "We've done our market research and there are one or two things around overseas that may be in the same area, but they don't appear to have done very much." The program could also be used to find other programming errors and change them. For example, it could be used to update programs if the United Kingdom changes its currency to the European currency. "Any changes that would be implied by that, you can use that same package to make those changes as well," he said. "You can set out the rules and let it work accordingly." Story Copyright c 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. btw ADIC acted pretty well today. PBI might be stuck in netral for a while, if it can't take out 46. Best rgds Wiz