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To: James Strauss who wrote (19275)	6/26/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: John Hanzl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

I miss Skipard and good 'ole TMex too... This thread used to be really enjoyable! Ah well...Click your heels three times and say: 'There's no place like home, there's no place like home' JohnnyH

To: James Strauss who wrote (19275)	6/26/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: fma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

James - As someone who has had to rely on state govt contracting funds, I can tell you, it's not fun. If you think we have a variety of opinions on this thread, you ought to take a look at a tiny department say, judicial, that can say hold everything up because of some local potentate who thought he wasn't involved enough in the process. Sinkhole is way too good a word. I'd prefer if there really are time deadlines, and I don't think we disagree here, that TAVA do what TAVA does best and teach some vendor to use the CD on the city and county govt. stuff when there is a lull in trade. Now if TAVA could get the DOD contract, well, I'd cheer. I don't know if dissent means one is a detractor, but I sure have a large number of my family in this stock long for a detractor with an agenda. Not the biggest shareholder here, but probably in the upper ten percent. fma

To: James Strauss who wrote (19275)	6/26/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Rick Bullotta	Respond to of 31646

<<Any contract is a good contract>>. Couldn't be farther from the truth. You've obviously never done project work in this type of business! <g> There most definitely ARE bad customers, bad projects, and bad contracts, and anyone who has done muni work can explain why a yellow flag goes up right away when local govts are involved. On the other side of the fence, I think the manufacturing clients that TAVA has nailed down are EXCELLENT prospects for near and long term revenues and profits. Just want to see more, more more! I want to reiterate one other thing I've said before...there's a big difference between a "realist" and a "detractor" (and a "lemming"). A "realist" is going to help ensure that expectations are set properly, expectations that might even be exceeded (with the commensurate increase in share price). A "lemming" ignores all common sense and reality, allowing blind enthusiasm to create unrealistic expectations that, inevitably, cannot be met, causing serious damage to the share price and corporate reputation. I, for one, would rather see reasonable, realistic, but aggressive EPS and growth expectations set, have TAVA beat them, and watch the share price fly, rather than let the hype-heads throw out ridiculous numbers and expectations, which when not met, will kill the stock and the company. Things are not always what they appear.