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To: Maverick who wrote (35435)	2/19/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: blankmind	Respond to of 61433

thank you for such good news. and here is something i received in my email (the dear, really appears this way without my name). Dear : GartnerGroup, the leading authority on IT, estimates that within three years, 55 million employees worldwide will work remotely. Your competition is on the move - is your enterprise keeping up? The world's leading experts offer you the chance to learn about: Remote Access: Building and Managing the Workplace of the Future Lake Buena Vista, Florida April 28-30, 1998 visit gartner.com for event information REGISTER NOW AND SAVE $200! ********************************************************************** Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount: simply visit gartner.com and register with payment by 5 p.m. EST, February 27, 1998. (Or, contact Ashley Pearce at 1-800-778-1997 or +1-203-316-6757.) Early Bird Discount Price: $1,095 for all GartnerGroup clients, or $1,395 for all non-clients. Team Registration Discount: Register 4 colleagues with payment at the same time, and register a fifth at no charge. (Early Bird pricing applies until 5 pm EST on February 27, 1998.) Client discount applies to all continuous service clients retaining $15,000 or more in contract value. ******************************************************************* Remote Access: Building and Managing the Workplace of the Future To help your enterprise do business - better - remotely, GartnerGroup brings you a premier conference that delivers solutions to managing the technology, the costs and the business-process changes necessary for the transition form office-bound workers to telecommuters and road warriors. Find out here what technology and processes you need in place to support your workforce from the road, from a satellite office or customer location, even from home. ****************************************************************** About GartnerGroup's Remote Access conference: The office may no longer be the best place to get work done. Here is your opportunity to learn from the world's leading experts how to: -Exploit remote access to your competitive advantage -Understand key technology, business process and management trends -Indentify which vendors can deliver bottom-line service and support If you are responsible for designing, implementing or maintaining a system that supports telecommuters, road warriors, satellite offices, consumers or anyone else who needs and demands remote access, you can't afford to miss the technological insights and demonstrations at this conference. If you are a human resources manager, sales force manager, business development manager or anyone who must supervise a remote work force, you should also make a point of attending. For remote access vendors, this conference is a strategic opportunity for you to understand this critical market from the perspectives and needs of your ultimate customers, the end users. What you'll learn -What the risks and opportunities of working on the Internet are -What the myths and facts about remote access total cost of ownership are -How to use remote access technology to leverage customer relationships -How to track and support remote users and assets -Safe and productive configuration of voice, data, supplies and furniture for the future SOHO, Hot Desk and Hoteling models And much, much more. Choose from three focused tracks: Business Strategies; Acquisition &Implementation ; and Technology Futures. In addition, free tutorials are offered the evening before the start of the conference. You will leave this conference with the knowledge to make confident procurement and management decisions on both new and existing remote access investments. SPECIAL FEATURE! ******************************************************************** ICSA's (formerly NCSA) International Virus Prevention Conference (IVPC '98) This conference, co-located at the Walt Disney World Dolphin April 28 and 29, provides an opportunity for attendees to GartnerGroup's Remote Access conference to learn more about the hard reality of viruses and the need for secur-ity in today's remote work force environment. All IVPC sessions are free to Remote Access attendees. Get all the details on these two events, by visiting gartner.com, or by calling 1-800-778-1997 or 1-203-316-6757.

To: Maverick who wrote (35435)	2/19/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Respond to of 61433

Thanks Maverick. I was trying to figure out the followings: 1. The MMs maybe shorting to cap the $35 for obvious reasons. 2. Who is buying?? - The CIGs and the like?? or the Tiger Fund covering?? But in light of all the F/A developments as you reported, the above S-t movement seems less important. If I do sell a part of my holdings in the next month of so; it will only be a small part. :o), Jan

To: Maverick who wrote (35435)	2/21/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 61433

*OTRe: the next Microsoft? Watching Paint Dry Contrary to popular belief, watching paint dry can be a fascinating and extremely lucrative pastime. Ask one group of ANU chemists which has turned its academic know-how to what is widely touted as the most boring activity in existence. Over the past five years the group, headed by Professor Ric Pashley, has been investigating exactly how paint does dry, at a molecular level - under the watchful eye of multinational paint and chemical company Rohm and Haas, which has given almost half a million dollars to the project.* "Watching paint dry is actually quite fascinating if you study it at the molecular level," Prof Pashley confesses, and he says the company's investment is beginning to pay off. "Very quickly when you start doing basic research like this you begin to see commercial applications" says Prof Pashley, who became involved in the project through his expertise in colloid chemistry, which studies how microscopic spheres interact with one another. The chemistry of paint falls neatly in his field of expertise because paint is an even mixture of water and tiny blobs of soft plastic similar to perspex. Without additives, paint dries to form a completely clear film, Prof Pashley explained, but various clays and pigments are added to give different colours. As paint dries, water evaporates and the plastic spheres (or colloids) are forced together, fusing to form a thin layer of plastic that gives the paint a smooth, shiny finish. Below a certain temperature though - usually about seven degrees - the plastic colloids do not fuse properly and the paint becomes flaky. This is where the ANU chemists step in. PhD student Marilyn Karaman with Prof Pashley and Professor Barry Ninham have designed a machine to measure precisely what this crucial temperature is, triggering a small revolution in the billion-dollar international paint industry. An international patent for the machine has recently been filed in the US by Rohm and Haas and Prof Pashley estimates 500 machines could be sold world wide at around $100,000 each. All the machine needs now, he says, is a catchy name to replace its mundane working title: Minimum Film Formation Temperature Instrument. Apart from the paint-drying machine, the team has also applied their academic rigour to other procedures in the paint industry. Until now, for instance, the industry standard for measuring how well paint bonds to different materials was to rip a piece of adhesive-tape off a painted surface and see how much came away. "Some of the practices in industry have been quite primitive and, with a little bit of research, we have been able to make things a lot more sophisticated, Prof. Pashley said. Their work is a good example of how industry can benefit from a small research outlay, he said. "Rohm and Haas originally approached us to do this sort of research for them. They had the faith to try that and now it has paid off." [c] [Univation July 1997 Contents] [Univation Home Page] [AVCC Home Page]