Thanks for the kind comments Rente & TomatoMeister to whom we are all indebted.
Welcome aboard Rente and thanks for your first post #190 with added complements.
I don't want to labor the point, but after ploughing through about 60 highly charged and emotional posts today. Phew! I would like to remind everyone here, that there was some kind of similarly inspired mini-panic that sent FNTN to a new low for the year at .22,
just before lift-off back in April.
At that time, I remember highlighting the fact of how quickly the market recovered from that low back towards the high end of the range, within just a few hours. The people who bought into that panic became huge winners over the next few days. On the other hand, the people who sold have possibly still not gotten over it and probably continue to ask themselves to this day: Why, why, why? And how could I have been so...etc? I have seen this pattern occur so many times, in so many markets, it's plain text book behavior.
On the subject of the massive investment in computing infrastructure recently made by Financial Intranet, I think it speaks volumes about FNTN's Management, in that they have had to foresight to evaluate the entire market place in order to seek out what is at the leading edge of 'Secured Intranet' technology and who is way ahead of the curve in Video Streaming capabilities, etc. Whilst initially Siemens may have appeared to have been an odd choice as supplier, (and strategic partner, perhaps), it now looks to have been extremely wise and prescient.
Btw...to all those worried about Microsoft buying us out, habitually, they don't start to get interested until companies get up into the 500 million or billion dollar status. And they are not always successful either in engaging those companies especially now with all the increased Government scrutiny they have to be very careful. Even Billg himself had to ante up 5 mil the other day, for the right to use the IE name after the individual that owned it finally won out in court.
Remember how they thought they were going to crush AOL like some annoying bug, with their Microsoft Network. Didn't quite pan out as expected and they did suffer some degree of humiliation at the time. Remember, nobody has a monopoly on the future...Nobody. We've all learnt that from Netscape, AOL, Yahoo & all the others.
Who's to dictate that emerging growth players like FNTN can't take on the big boys...
To illustrate exactly this point, if you want to have an interesting new browsing experience, that imo functionally exceeds both NSCP 4.05 (loaded with bugs) and IE 4.05 (equally bug laden) combined at this time, then go 7to operasoftware.com, download it and get ready to be pleasantly surprised. If you like having the capability of browsing 10 sites at once right within one browser page - This browser's for you! Incidently, it makes browsing SI a dream because you can monitor many different topics at the same time and once pages have been accessed, you have virtually instant recall. There are some limitations and it takes a bit of getting used to, so I use all three browsers for different duties.
Interestingly, this browser runs the old fntn website at hyperspeed on the new server where it is currently parked. Here's the link with some comments from Norway with love...
operasoftware.com
NEWS: Opera wins PC World Award... Opera Software announces Italian version of Opera 3.21....Contracts signed for the development of a MacOS, Linux and BeOS version...
A very warm 'Welcome' from Opera Software!
Tired of 10MB+ downloads, megabytes of updates, sluggish performance, HTML standard violations, desktop domination, instability, the seductive word 'free', and a browser war that left you as the only casualty? Then welcome to Opera!
Small, fast, customizable, powerful but user-friendly, it takes the
wait out of the Internet, reduces your online charges and does what the others tried in vain: it puts a big smile on your face. It also is -- surprise, surprise -- well worth paying for.
So this is our website -- made for you. Lots of information is awaiting you; tips and tricks, feedback forms, a press kit, a
user forum - you name it.
But this is also your website -- made for us. Opera is a product of hundreds of customer requests and suggestions. It exists for you, because of you.
But have a look around and -- if you don't know Opera -- download the latest version, which is yours for 30 full user days to evaluate. If you aren't sure and believe users rather than us, have a look at our guestbook -- it's sure to convince the most hesitant soul. <grin>
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As readers of my 'Financial Intelligence' email report will know, I have for a long time considered the free browser strategy to be 'fatally flawed'. It ended up giving Microsoft a much bigger headache than it ever bargained for. Whilst they may have recouped development costs through the integrated browser release of W98, we would probably have gotten a better product from both companies if they had offered the beta free and eventually charged for the final version.
Opera has come out with a sufficiently better product, that I would consider paying to have it, even though the competing products are free. Whilst everyone considers Microsoft to be invincible, they are imo more vulnerable today, especially from bootleggers, copycats and counterfeiters, than at any time in their history. Having shown people the way, the brainiacs of the future are already dreaming up, formulating and creating hardware and software for the next century.
In a few days or weeks, when all this needless angst has dissipated, I hope that I will be able to speak for most all here and state unequivocally, that our time spent here, amongst dwellers and lurkers alike, will have been time well spent and in good company.
Here's to all our futures...
Best rgds
Wiz |
