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To: Steven Bowen who wrote (3808)	2/11/1998 11:42:00 PM
From: DubM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

Nothing real exciting in this bit of news but thought i would post it. Some may wish to look at employment at the WinStar sight. They aren't looking for a bunch of people for no reason! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday February 11, 8:01 am Eastern Time Company Press Release WinStar Communications Selects Template Software to Deliver Industry-Leading Customer Service Solutions Cutting-Edge Solutions Reinforce WinStar's Quality Customer Service Factor DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1998-- Template Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TMPL - news), an advanced software technology and solutions company, Wednesday announced that WinStar Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: WCII - news), a growing national telecommunications organization, has selected Template to provide enterprise application solutions for customer care and integrated service management to support its customers nationwide. In today's highly competitive telecommunications market, superior customer care, faster time to market, and control of costs are critical elements of competitive success. WinStar is using Template technology to provide an integration platform for common customer and management interfaces for a diverse array of third-party software products and external systems. Under a multi-phased project, the two companies are working together using Template's Foundation and Process Template technology. The first phase of the WinStar implementation focuses on customer-centric, order entry and order management applications. These applications will support the ordering and provisioning of all WinStar products. ''We're very pleased that WinStar has chosen Template to deliver its customer care and integrated service management solutions,'' said Lin Pearce, Template Software's CEO. ''WinStar's vote of confidence in our ability to deliver on systems that are critical to their competitive success validates the power of the template approach for enterprise business-critical solutions delivery at low cost, low risk, and reduced time to market.'' ''Template's advanced software products and object engineering expertise will enable WinStar to deploy a modern customer care solution that automates the flow of business work through the organization and provides the flexibility to rapidly react to market demands in a cost effective manner,'' said Jamie Bullen, WinStar's VP, Network Systems Engineering. ''This allows us to optimize the quality of customer service delivery and reduce our time to market for new telecommunications services by easily incorporating best-of-breed components.'' Template Software Template Software delivers advanced business computing solutions focused on integrating the enterprise. Exploiting distributed object technology, the company specializes in business solutions optimized to capture, automate, and refine the business process. Template's innovative template-based approach has been used to rapidly deliver custom, enterprise business solutions in industries such as telecommunications, government, transportation, insurance, finance, energy, and health care.

To: Steven Bowen who wrote (3808)	2/12/1998 6:11:00 PM
From: Edward Murphy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12468

Steve, I think you may be being conservative with your estimates. The minimum opening bid for the small (less than 100k) markets is $.75 per pop, for the mid range (100K to 1mil) it is $1.50 and for the larger markets it is $2.25. Also WCII probably has picked up a few more licenses that we haven't heard about yet. No sense fantasying yet and we'll know the auctions results shortly. IMHO we should see some increase in the stock valuation as a result of the auctions, but even if the prices are at multiples of the minimum bids I don't expect the stock to trade up to that value, whatever it is. Should help the analysts as they will finally have some benchmark to use for valuation. Appreciate the effort you are putting in and I'm looking forward to your analysis once the auctions are over. It will certainly be one of the main items on the conference call. I believe the company has delayed the conference call until after the auction results were in. Ed PS : Dub - you need more faith. Just invest all your capital with Saint Alex and he will lead you to your just rewards. It will be refreshing to own a company that is unfettered by revenues, customers, etc.