To: kolo55 who wrote (3375 ) 7/14/1998 8:40:00 PM From: John Curtis Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Paul: I'm not so sure. Red Chip had stopped covering VLNC waaay back shortly after the L.D. "move to Henderson" bombshell. This report will be the first since that time. Correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't make much sense to stop coverage, and then several months later come back with another report as a "kiss off," no? Of course, I'd be willing to consider this as a plausible option if Red Chip was a "hired gun" conducting analyses for the highest bidder, and/or accepting money from the corporation they're writing up. Then it'd be possible an "enemy" could have hired an appropriately negative analysis. But they're not hired guns, at least not based on their advertising. They make their money by selling their product, in this case, the Red Chip Review letter, either by the letter, by the quarter or by the year. And finally, I doubt the analyst who covered VLNC left solely because of VLNC. Would that a career should hinge on ONE analysis, eh? 'Cause if it did, I think there'd be a lot of analyst's out there looking for work.
