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To: Amsterdam who wrote (1725)	3/24/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3033

Hi Amsterdam: I think part of it was time frame. We are releasing our Mobile product at the end of the 2nd quarter, and they believe they needed something earlier. Every customer seems to think that; what they don't realize is the time needed to install, customize, and deploy any system from any of these vendors. SEBL right now is known as the premier SFA company. Maybe MSFT thinks that such a 'best of breed' approach is right. And some may just be the newness factor; they know all our warts, having lived with us for a few years now. We all know SEBL looks great on the surface. As I have said in previous posts, I think that a SEBL deal at MSFT is going to be a real challenge for them. I saw someone post some outrageous figure like a 65% SEBL SFA failure rate (defining failure as inability to successfully deploy and utilize the system for the intended number of users)??!! That's gotta be wrong, but right now us (and VNTV, I believe) are running at virtual 0% failure. A failure at MSFT would be a huge wound to SEBL at a time when they need to focus their resources on their acquistion, uh, merger. Another factor may be SEBL's position of supporting only MSFT technologies (whereas we also support Oracle and Sybase). That's gotta be attractive to MSFT. But that can't be the primary reason, maybe just a contributing factor. But I'm just rambling. I guess to get the unspun story, we would need to hear from MSFT directly. Probably won't happen, but it would be interesting. Good luck.