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To: Kashish King who wrote (525)	7/17/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: PCSS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

My RT just displayed 28300 shares Ready- To-Trade (RTT) upon open Bid increased to 8 5/32 (same as last sale) Meaning/Observations/Musings/Ramblings ... #1 - This is unusual for INPR to have such a large RTT this early (someones impatient) and there's still 90 min left for further movement inshares RTT and/or bid ..... someone knows something (good or bad ??) #2 - Bid=Last Sale ... usually good, most times this means an uptick on open #3 - Over the last week or so INPR volume (with some nice sized bocks) has been fairly robust with price going almost nowhere ... it has to go somewhere sometime #4 - Earnings release is soon (someone said 7/22, I found 7/21 somewhere - anyone know for sure which ?) and movement of some sort is due ... I don't know why it couldn't be up. #5 - It's market time for small/mid cap issues to move and INPR fits here #6 - Irrelevent of this thread's debate as to the value of INPR's technology prowess/direction .. it is better that it has been in a LONG time and has value to INPR and/or others. #7 - It is my belief that INPR is available for the right price and there are probably offers on the table. #8 - Del is bright and although has shown minimal interest in shareholder values .. has stated and politely tried to boost the stock price (at times) ... when better than just before earnings ?? Sorry, for this logarhea, it was generated by such an early RTT showing ... as always, time will tell. Thank you for your patience Michael

To: Kashish King who wrote (525)	7/17/1998 12:55:00 PM
From: David R	Respond to of 5102

Rod, I only choose to respond to make one point perfectly clear. I have never been engaged in your COM/Bean holy war. COM is a fine technology (and process of sorts) for application development. It has complexities and frustrations to be sure, but it works. And it makes team development much easier (assuming the team is COM savvy). COM has grunge. The worst (in my experience) is the reference counting mess. We don't use VB, and few of our objects support IDispatch. Everything we do is geared for C++, and COM works fine. For all its short comings, COM solves the problems we have today for a product that we need to deliver today. That is all that really matters. I have no qualms or arguments against BEANS. In fact, I have been a leading proponent of Java in our product (where it makes sense). Unfortunately, we will only begin to get the functionality we require in JDK 1.2, so we have not been able to use Java yet. I have been one of the few champions of INPR acquisition (on this thread) of VSGN because I understand the importance of enterprise beans, and I think that INPR made a superb strategic decision (despite the short term pain to us share holders).