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To: cjgaddy who wrote (63)	3/3/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: Bill Oegerle	Respond to of 141

Jack, I have followed your posts to this thread over the last year vis-a-vis MRCM vs MAPX. Based on the MAPX yearly report, they are re-writing MAPICS XA in Java... so in the end, there wont be any "baggage" to carry along I would guess. My only worry is how long this conversion process to client/server is going to take [and how long before growth picks up substantially]. I am new to this thread and the Marcam/Mapics history. Looks like a long and involved story. My only criteria for not looking into Marcam is that they have no earnings. Call me silly, but we all have our own investment filters -- mine are simply to never buy stocks with negative earnings, never bottom fish, and never buy stocks with P/E > 30. Ok, I am going to miss out on some great stocks... but there are plenty of fish in the sea meeting my criteria (strong companies with good growth (>30%) and modest P/E). I will keep checking on Marcam to see if they become profitable... in the meantine I hope you make a killing on the stock! regards, Bill