To: JDN who wrote (20729 ) 7/16/1998 12:43:00 PM From: CalculatedRisk Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 31646
JDN, I'll come clean<G>. 1) I am not acquainted with any poster on this thread , except through discussions on SI. 2) None of my posts are from a script ... just hard work. 3) Secret identities. WOW, that is scary! I used to have my name in my profile box, but as a short seller, I received a lot of hate mail. Some of the "longs" on this thread know my name ... BTW, CalculatedRisk is the name of a friend's racing boat<g>! 4) Employers, hedge funds, etc. I am retired. I am a private investor. No one pays me to post. I have been contacted (over the net) by a few hedge funds. I have been asked: a) if they could reprint my posts. (I was flattered!) b) if I could provide my sources. Usually I provide most sources. c) if I would back off ACLY until a particular hedge fund built their short position. NO WAY! I was already short. No one has ever offered to pay me to post. 5) My posts are accurate. I have pointed out: a) declining core business. b) TAVA does not do remediation as defined by other Y2K companies. c) Accounting: heavy software capitalization. d) Accounting: heavy negative cash flow. e) Financing: 22% annual interest rate on new loan. f) TAVA is really a consulting company, not a product company. g) Product: PlantY2K One is a "how to" CD with a simple database, nothing special. h) that the CD was not selling well through Wonderware (I posted this before Jenkins acknowledged this). i) FWIW, the Russell 2000 is the smallest 2000 stocks in the Russell 3000. And several other factual and 100% accurate pieces of information concerning TAVA. There is much more to come! Hope this helps, Bill