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Technology Stocks : Saville Systems (SAVLY) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: B Hewson who wrote (64)	2/6/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: Mohammed Bhimji	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 261

Hi, You can call our investor relations for more info. about us. Our major competitors would be companies like LHS or Keenan - basically any company that is involved in developing billing software. We offer two solutions. One AS/400 based and the other is the new CBP Open, which is primarily Oracle based. There is a high demand for both products. Telegroup and DIAX are two companies that have chosed CBP Open as their convergent billing software. Check out Yahoo: quote.yahoo.com You'll get all the releases and other information that will help you decide whether to invest or not and what we're all about. Also check out our web site at savillesys.com Enjoy! Mohammed

To: B Hewson who wrote (64)	2/8/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: Phil Jacobson	Respond to of 261

Hi Barbara, I've been in telecom for 14 years. Although it's gotten a lot more complex with the advent of Internet and local/long distance convergence you can generally think of a phone company's basic "product" as a phone call. Everything else that the folks in marketing do almost depends on billing. Good billing systems will make marketing look like geniuses. Bad billing systems make them look like morons. That's a large part of what went wrong at AT&T all these years. Saville's got a hell of a niche. My company has been building its own systems for years so we don't need to outsource, but how can all these new competitors who want to bill for every telecom service at the same time ever hope to get there in less than 10 years? The only solution is to buy it from outside. I don't know a lot about this part of the industry but people I know who have dealt with them think they're excellent and very customer driven. That's what matters most. As long as management stays focused and they continue to hire good people there's no end in sight, in fact this particular part of the telecom industry is almost certainly about to explode. So, I continue to hold my long position and will keep buying those calls on the dips to add to the income! Good Luck! Phil