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Microcap & Penny Stocks : CSHK CASHCO MANAGEMENT Y2K -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (520)	4/10/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: www	Respond to of 7491

what it is you want to know about. The kitty litter?

To: lazarre who wrote (520)	4/10/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: Jim B	Respond to of 7491

Maybe you haven't read enough.. I've answered all these questions before... I'll quickly summarize as I'm not feeling well.. THIS MSG NOT DIRECTED AT ANY ONE PERSON! CSHK is not a software company.. they are not a kitty litter company. CSHK is a STRATEGIC MARKETING company that seeks out and finds products that have significant potential in the marketplace. Those that own the rights to those products either lack the financials means, the right connections, or the knowledge of how to get their product to the market. CSHK steps in... tests the product thoroughly and then if they like it they acquire the rights/company/product and goto work. They picked up the kitty litter in September of 1997 and have made tremendous progress w/ it thus far. Sales should start flowing within a few months. When they found the Y2K software in Janurary of 1998 they felt they couldn't pass up on it. So they recently acquired them as well. How many companies do you see in this day and age that only have 1 product line. There are companies out there that deal with oil, financial, medical, R&D, etc and if they can do it well and make money who cares.. more power to them. You may disagree, but I think CSHK is doing the right thing. They aren't overextending themselves at this point. Should they be trying to juggle 50 products in the development stage then yes I'd say they've gone too far. But right now they only have 2 products in the final stage and 2 more in the R&D (research and development phase). As far as Microsoft having a Y2K product for the PC... maybe they do.. maybe they don't. How many Memory Managers, Disk Utilities, Crash protection utilities, Virus Protection, System Diagnostic applications are there?? One of each? 'Cuz no one would dare put out a product that someone else has already thought of right? Yeah right. World of competition. Didn't anyone here take economics in college.. or maybe I should lower it to high school? Factors that will include success are price, distribution, advertisements to seek product recognition, non-affiliated yet professional support such as a write-up in PC MAGAZINE, product enhancement such as the designing of the box, and of course the final and most important thing.. your product should SAY WHAT IT DOES, and DO WHAT IT SAYS. Have a great holiday all! jim Hope this clears it up for you all.. jim

To: lazarre who wrote (520)	4/10/1998 10:12:00 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7491

My understanding of the application is that it searches a user defined hard drive looking for executables, I also believe it does a check on the BIOS... When if finds an executable it retrieves certain properties of the executable, such as version, etc... It then compares this against an ISAM database that is shipped with the product... The database is a collection of version specific commercial application entries, it's associated Y2K problems, and the name of the vendor patch for this problem... The database can also be updated as additions and changes are made, much like the way virus lists are done with virus protection software... I have also read that the URL for the patch is given... It then reports what your problem applications are and what you need to do to fix them... Not Rocket Science, but it sure speeds things up when you have to check multiple machines and you want to do it without getting intimately aquainted with each one of them and you don't what to have to spend hours on a company's website looking for a patch to a 5 year old, $50 piece of software that you should upgrade to a newer version anyhow... Where people are at risk - 1. Custom applications 2. Applications of Vendors that are not covered in their database It would be a nice feature it the Y2K application would also list programs that it finds that are not contained in it's database, maybe it does... This is all my take on the software from looking at the 11th Hour site... I could be off the mark, but I doubt it... Like I said before, it's not rocket science, but it will be a great help to people who either have better things to do with their resources or those who are not absolutely sure what their looking for...