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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (208)	5/18/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: mwj6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 296

> Certainly not Appivity and Crescent. They might be OK on their >own, but it is hardly worth swallowing all of Progress to get them. >That would be like eating an orange when you were only interested in >the seeds. Although I imagine these seeds may be the ones that will grow the fastest. Amusing analogy! > Certainly not the VAR channel. While it is 60+% of Progress' >revenue streams and there are a lot of good applications out there, >especially if many of them would ever make it to real GUI >client/server, Oracle has never shown any inclination to want to >manage and develop an application VAR channel. Think they would start >now? Isn't the Oracle Application Dealer Network a VAR channel? > So, exactly why is it you think this is such a great >acquisition? makes my stock go up ? ;-) keeps this thread alive...the fact that PRGS has doubled off its low and has little to no discussion makes me wonder if this is a fairly valued company. What do you think about that? /matt