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Technology Stocks : OBJECT DESIGN Inc.: Bargain of the year!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Burt Eiseman who wrote (1930)	5/12/1998 6:58:00 AM
From: hasbeen101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

Only 95 to go! Seriously, I feel cautious about counting packages developed by Big 6 firms. Until recently, ODIS was claiming RiskToolset from Price Waterhouse as a product that uses ObjectStore. In actual fact I spoke with the people in Price Waterhouse's New York office and they said they discontinued ObjectStore support ages ago mainly because of the cost. Also I know from experience that Big 6 firms rarely develop software that has any particular merit as software, and that these tools are usually just excuses to get thousands of consulting hours at $450 an hour. Coopers likely wouldn't sell the package to someone who wants it: they would "give" it to you if and only if you bought half a million dollars of consulting time. I'm inclined not to count the Coopers tool unless anyone can show me evidence that it really gets sold as software.