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To: John Mansfield who wrote (13006)	3/22/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: threadneedler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

All: TAVA continues to look like the dream holding at this point, with great momentum and apparent protection from the vagaries of the market. I guess that's what scares me, it's almost too perfect. I agree with those who foresee 20's and possibly beyond. Before I increase my position even more, I'd like to get some feedback on what you see as possible red flags. I'm not expert enough to see anything on the horizon that would blunt further upside, so I need your input. I know some of you feel they may have problems staffing as demand continues to escalate...anything else? Please don't consider this to be a negative post, I just like to allow for any and all contingencies. Thanks!

To: John Mansfield who wrote (13006)	3/28/1998 5:41:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

INDEX-TAVA - Update Last update 3/28/1998 - TAVA Ad's, PR.. - Conferences - RFP's - Automotive Industry - Bristol-Meyers Squibb - Wonderware / TAVA - Wonderware distributors - Microsoft / Wonderware / TAVA - Thoughts on TAVA's partners - Comments on TAVA - Links - Other stuff - Some thoughts - Discussions - Contingency Planning and Speed to Market - Industry Groups ___________________________________________________________________ TAVA Ad's, PR.. Fortune May 25 - Y2K supplement Message 3747967 Some TAVA customers and potential customers meet.... '1998 Plant Engineering Management Show and Conference March 16-19, Chicago, IL Message 3663767 3/98 Dow Jones Newswires - February 9, 1998 Topro Stock Up 21%; Awareness Of Year 2000 Glitch Cited Message 3383839 3/98 TAVA web site mentioned in the link's page of the IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers: iee.org.uk ; have a look at: ' H2 GENERAL ' 'Control Engineering' - COVER STORY - TAVA's Eugene C. Jacobsen 'February, 1998 Control Engineering COVER STORY Year 2000: Where Do You Stand? It's fewer than 22 months to year 2000. If you haven't started a detailed compliance assessment of plant-floor software, you might want to hurry. ' Eugene C. Jacobsen, TAVA Technologies Message 3492680 manufacturing.net 'I did see a quote of Jenkins in the following magazine. in another magazine, there was a quote of one of the sales people of TAVA. Ad's would be nice, but probably are not necessary.' industryweek.com 'Emerald: 'work by companies who are developing ways to correct this will still be needed after the year 2000' Found by David Sheridan: lancnews.com Message 3330504 ___________________________________________________________________ Conferences Wonderware in SA: 'Year 2000: Year 2000 problems will not be restricted to the IT Industry...' 3/98 ...- it will affect automation and process control as well. Wonderware's proposed comprehensive testing mechanism for industry will be discussed at this workshop.' Message 3639478 ___________________________________________________________________ 'STATE OF WASHINGTON, Department of Transportation - RFP for department-wide Year 2000 Embedded Chip Services' Message 3675853 FOLLOW-UP post - The STATE OF WASHINGTON, Department of Transportation Message 3676006 ___________________________________________________________________ Coca Cola Building new plants all over the world... cocacola.com ___________________________________________________________________ Automotive Industry 'Jenkins: 'we're involved with them in their supply chain just launching right now'' From: Message 3474233 'The undertaking by the automotive industry via AIAG is massive. With nearly 50 000 Tier-1 suppliers and 500 000 total suppliers throughout the chain...' '....AIAG Assessment Certified and asked if he would care to comment.' And then read the lines on the TAVA GM engagement below! GM is very active in the AIAG Y2K initiatives; TAVA comes in as a solution provider: From vcall.com From the www.year2000.com listserver - TAVA Q/A Message 3474109 ___________________________________________________________________ Bristol-Meyers Squibb 'My name is Janice Myint. As part of the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Year 2000 effort...' mbs-program.com Information on BMY (Bristol Myers Squibb) Message 3253513 ___________________________________________________________________ Wonderware / TAVA 1998 WONDERWORLD - AN INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH CONFERENCE Message 3657531 3/98 Wonderware's FactorySuite 2000 on tour in France - March 1998 in about 25 cities Message 3639520 3/98 Wonderware Corporation FactorySuite Year 2000 Product Support pantek.co.uk (distributing partner of Wonderware) Message 3232259 'it is from the Wonderware home page (www.wonderware.com):' techstocks.com. 'ARE YOU READY FOR THE YEAR 2000? Don't let your industrial automation systems grind to a halt on January 1, 2000. Find out how Wonderware and TAVA Technologies have the Year 2000 Solution for your plant.' "Re: what makes TPRO an exciting long term investment'' 'Karl, Right! I slapped my head that I did not read the white papers in detail some months before. In my mind, Wonderware was just one of the product vendors sitting on top of MS NT and BackOffice. Reading those White papers was a real eye-opener to me; and it changed my mind completely!' Message 3244991 Wonderware: ' Yes, please send me a Year 2000 information package!' Message 3628107 ___________________________________________________________________ Wonderware distributors Wonderware partner Standard Automation: Denver, Houston stdauto.com 'YES YES YES!! Wonderware partner's training session - also about y2k!' softcell.com; go to 'whats is new', factory suite 2000 'Analysis tools and services to assist in diagnosing the plant's millenium health will be introduced in this session. A solid 1 hour and 30 minutes on y2k on the factory floor.' Message 3233049 Distributors of Wonderware products Links to several WW distributors. Message 3243768 SoftCell: Wonderware Acquires Minority Interest in Two Distributors To Strengthen Channel, Facilitate High-Level Software Sales Message 3282319 __________________________________________________________________ MICROSOFT / Wonderware / TAVA Small example of Factory Floor / MIS integration the MSFT/WNDR way Message 3796009 'Microsoft technology is also a part of OLE for Process Control (OPC)' microsoft.com General Microsoft white paper on Manufacturing. Message 3244843 Microsoft/Internet/Wonderware/TAVA microsoft.com 'Well I get carried away a bit by all this wonderful Microsoft/Wonderware stuff ;-) What a partner for TAVA!' Message 3244710 Microsoft-Wonderware-TAVA microsoft.com I started reading al the white papers of Microsoft (MS) on Manufacturing.' Message 3244352 'Now, in 1996, Wonderware and Microsoft have advanced their strategic partnership to a new level. Microsoft has recognized that the Wonderware Factory SuiteT manufacturing software tools are "best of breed" client/server applications ideally suited for use with the BackOfficeT family of server products.' Update on Wonderware's website: tight Microsoft/Wonderware technology link Message 3613303 ___________________________________________________________________ Thoughts on TAVA'S partners Some thoughts on the indirect TAVA distribution channels 'The last couple of days I have tried to make for myself a broader picture of TAVA, it's product and the marketing and sales strategies.' Message 3284322 ___________________________________________________________________ Comments on TAVA From: Rick Cowles <rcowles@waterw.com> Subject: Response to TAVA Technologies Inc or "Torpo" Date: 1998-02-04 16:47:51 I spent some time reviewing the TAVA product at their Westchester PA offices, and it's certainly a piece of the puzzle. Of most interest is their embedded controls methodology, and data repository. I don't believe that they have "testing software" per se (i.e. something that you could non-intrusively hook up to a PLC and test the PLC throughput), but I could be wrong about that... Message 3350390 ___________________________________________________________________ LINKS LINKS to organisations related to embedded software - from Industrial Communication (IC) site indcom.ideon.se 'Merger creates Scandinavias leading provider of industrial automation software' Message 3232572 industrylink.com Message 3210609 ___________________________________________________________________ OTHER STUFF Plant Information at the Desktop: a strategic solution to the problem of getting batch information from different control systems to the corporate desktop wbf.org This has been discussed some time ago by CK. This document is a good and detailed description of plant-floor - MIS integration; the business that TAVA will be in increasingly after 2000 (leveraging their accumulated detailed know-how of lots of plant floors). ___________________________________________________________________ Some thoughts 'Internet year Another thing came to my mind regarding immovable time horizon etc; and changed business rules/investment rules re. y2k companies and TAVA in particular.' Message 3417425 ___________________________________________________________________ Discussions 'On the EPRI as a possible competitor issue' Message 3577049 Message 3584425 Analysis of Chris Coppage / reaction Message 3627627 __________________________________________________________________ Contingency Planning and Speed to Market 'So all effort to spent on getting on with remediating the most critical systems first; is putting your company in greated danger than necessary. This notion will increasingly blow away ideas of doing anything that is not absolulely necessary. So when buying a solution from outside will speed the proces up; co's will do just that.' Message 3600685 __________________________________________________________________ Industry Groups '...results are achieved, IMF publishes and distributes them to all Year 2000 Group ' 'What is the IMF Year 2000 Group? The Year 2000 Group is an Information Management Forum program comprised of organizations desiring to collaborate on Year 2000 issues' Members of the Year 2000 Group include: Cargill Incorporated Coca-Cola Enterprises General Motors Corporation Message 3628017 __________________________________________________________________ 'Please give me a beer; now that I know that I can wait to drink a Coke in 2000' - After KO announcement