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To: baggo who wrote (18113)	6/8/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Kathy Riley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

TAVA is partnered with DDIM and KEANE. DDIM has signed contracts with both Merck and Kaiser (this is public info on both cases). DDIM signed with TAVA because they need their expertise. I don't have to stretch too far to think that TAVA might land Merck, particularly since they already have BMY which has rolled into the 125 site contract. Of course, we still don't know if they signed Merck, however there is a connection there that could lead to benefits for TAVA. Regards, Kathy

To: baggo who wrote (18113)	6/8/1998 1:31:00 PM
From: Steve Sanchez	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

to back up what you stated: CONNECTION? DDIM/MRK DDIM/TAVA MRK/TAVA? Comments appreciated. from the latest Conference Call TAVA's ceo John Jenkins: ... Next theme is our alliance partners. We've talked about this in the past- and working with IT service companies that are addressing Y2K compliance at the business system level- we are currently working with more than a dozen- it's actually more than that, but a dozen, let's say, strongly active IT service companies in various project-specific arrangements. What we found here is that that we establish relationships with organizations such as ((inaudible)), (CSC), (Keen), (DDI), and others, but there's no value really in creating a formal structure. What we end up doing is working on a project-specific basis because every client that we engage with has a different approach or different need. So we've got probably between 10 and 20 different projects ongoing now with people as I've mentioned and others. And I guess I'd like to say that in closing for my part that what I'm really excited about here is that it's not like we have the Y2K thing firmly in control at this point, but our business development efforts have paid off. ... best of luck, steve

To: baggo who wrote (18113)	6/8/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Robert T. Quasius	Respond to of 31646

It doesn't sound to me like Data Dimensions competes head-to-head with TAVA. TAVA's niche is the plant floor, while Data Dimensions is into higher level systems. I am also curious if TAVA has relationships with companies like Data Dimensions for handling the plant floor piece of the whole Y2K problem. Such partnerships make a lot of sense, because quite often IT programmers, etc. are not familiar with plant floor systems, which really are quite different. Take it from an experienced control systems engineer.