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To: Snowshoe who wrote (3311)	6/22/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 10309

Some recent Digita news... First Digita-Enabled Digital Cameras Now Available -- Kodak Delivers Digita-Enabled DC220 and DC260 Digital Cameras Worldwide biz.yahoo.com Digital Camera Operating Environment Adds Drivers for Iomega's Ultra-small Clik! Drives and Disks -- Flashpoint, Iomega to Preserve Image Quality Among Capture and Output biz.yahoo.com Background on WIND's involvement in Digita... wrs.com

To: Snowshoe who wrote (3311)	6/22/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Michael Greene	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

FAS 123 Pro Forma Disclosures If someone has time, it would be helpful to do a comparison between WIND and other software companies. The more companies included, the better. Greg, Here are the reported vs pro forma results for a sample of software companies. ESP / Pro Forma symbol last Fiscal Yr prev. fiscal Yr two years ago EFII 1.15 / 0.93 1.13 / 1.06 0.71 / 0.68 INTS 0.25 / 0.11 0.31 / 0.19 0.24 / 0.21 MSFT 2.63 / 2.32 1.71 / 1.48 1.16 / 0.99 MWAR (0.11)/(0.20) 0.11 / 0.09 NOVL (0.22)/(0.31) 0.35 / 0.33 ORCL 1.22 / 1.10 0.90 / 0.86 PTEC 0.87 / 0.67 0.73 / 0.69 RSYS 1.93 / 1.60 1.30 / 1.19 0.35 / 0.25 SYSF (0.76)/(0.98) (1.70)/(1.84) 0.16 / 0.13 WIND 0.17 /(0.23) 0.43 / 0.28 0.23 / 0.18 For the smaller companies in particular there is a strong and growing impact from employee options on reported compensation expenses. This trend can be expected to continue per the following comment in the WIND annual report: "In future years, the annual compensation expense factor is expected to increase relative to the fair value of stock options granted in those future years." Regards, Michael