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To: EyeDrMike who wrote (18108)	6/8/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 31646

Dear Eye Dr. : Dont get me wrong. I hope that you are right. But the person who told me this owns TAVA shares, works for Merck in a high level IS position. Now my info is at least 2 weeks maybe something changed. He was trying to find out WHY TAVA wasnt selected. Thats all I can say at this time. I am just cautioning you and others to be absolutely sure. Not that it matters that much. TAVA has way more work than it can possibly handle--we cant do the whole world alone. JDN

To: EyeDrMike who wrote (18108)	6/10/1998 9:15:00 AM
From: Rick Bullotta	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 31646

Interestingly, I just talked to a friend of mine who works for one of TAVA's local competitors in the Philadelphia area. His company recently beat out TAVA for a big chunk of Y2K services with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical and consumer products companies, though TAVA did get some work as well. Apparently TAVA was going for the corporate-wide deal, which didn't happen. From what I've been hearing out there, lots and lots of smaller systems integrators have decided to cash in on this frenzy as well, and are going in at much lower rates than TAVA ($90-100/hour versus $150). Not sure what the overall impact would be, but lower rates might be one outcome, though I doubt that if the projected resource shortage comes to bear, that rates would stay low for long! The other implication, of course, is that there are a heck of a lot more competitors out there for the auditing and remediation work on the plant floor...not surprising, since it will be more cost effective for a lot of clients to engage a local systems integrator (no travel & living expenses, probably lower rates, etc.).