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To: Kevin A. Lynch who wrote (414)	6/8/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: Brian K Crawford	Respond to of 507

Kevin...Diebold could be a suitor, but I still think FISERV is the number one prospect to buy SFNB....They are already selling SFNB to a number of their bank clients...and they have a track record of buying existing software solutions and running them as separate lines. IMO... Brian

To: Kevin A. Lynch who wrote (414)	6/8/1998 9:50:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 507

Kman, don't know enough about DBD to have an opinion. As for the Mahan post on Yahoo, my guess is an imposter would have fed us some BS, but who knows? I do know that people at S1 read that board (and this one, but they won't spend the money to join). In fact, we've had employees (and former ones) post over there. I do wonder why he responded to "Marquedman" though. Regards, Bob

To: Kevin A. Lynch who wrote (414)	6/9/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: King David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 507

KMAN, Yeh, still here quietly lurking, waiting for the Big Bang - not the one that created the universe (already happened) and not the one that is supposedly happening in Japan (not gonna happen), but the one that sends SFNB over 20. The notion of a purchase of SFNB by Diebold sounds like good sense. IMHO, there are a lot of parallels between DBD's place in the ATM market and SFNB's potential role in the internet market. From the DBD point of view, the internet could be just one more channel into the Bank's product offerings. Built, packaged, sold just like ATM access is. If I recall correctly, a number of banks took their best shot at building ATM networks, but found it too difficult to do well. It was then called outside their core competencies and they partnered with ATM providers. I can see a similar story in internet -- Some banks will drop some big money on developing internet channel, but other companies will do it better, cheaper and faster, so to play the internet channel game, banks will look to third parties (and hopefully to SFNB and possibly DBD). Any thoughts? KD