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Technology Stocks : Forecross Corporation : Y/2000 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crandell Addington who wrote (1275)	7/22/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: Crandell Addington	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1654

TO THE THREAD: FRX superior technology in automated error handing. Most purportedly automated Y2K solutions work much like the find and replace feature of most word processors. FRX parses the entire program into a relational database they call a repository. The renovation of the code is rule based. None of the code is touched by "human hands" which eliminates "human error". Currently, "human error" is reported to be over one hundred mistakes for each ten thousand lines of code. More importantly, when the code from process "X"(another Y2K company's process) is delivered to the customer for testing, and the customer finds an error with a date variable(Let's call it StartDate.) he must re-examine all the code in the project to find all instances of StartDate, and then fix the problem by hand. With Forecross' repository technology the database can be queried for the program name and line number of every instance of StartDate, and a new rule in the rule based renovation technology automatically opens ONLY the appropriate programs, then makes the appropriate changes and returns the code to the customer overnight. FORECROSS GIVES FIXED TIME, FIXED PRICE BIDS THAT CARRY WARRANTIES FOR ANY SUCH FIXES. I believe that this automated error handling will prove to be as or more important than the automated fix and find. A Cap Gemini study indicates that fully 70% of the small percent that are actually in the renovation stage will have to modify their approach for the reasons stated above. Forecross has pegged their machine output potential at over 35 million lines of code a day, and I happen to know that this benchmarking was done on their slowest servers. Their potential is closer to 50 million lines of code a day. That output potential is many, many times the output potential of companies with over 10 times as many employees. I believe that as the pressure of time on the Y2K market increases, this cost efficiency will generate spectacular profits for FRX. Before I made my investment in Forecross, I did my homework. I investigated the people that founded this company and the people who developed its technology. I know that they have a forward looking process that was born of experience that the company has gained doing full automations for the best part of the last two decades, long before anyone had ever heard of Y2K(or at least spoken of it), and long before automated code processing was even known, let alone appreciated. Therefore, in my opinion, Forecross has the state of the art in automated migration technology, and the biggest and most expandable output in the industry. They will not need a significant increase in personnel to geometrically increase their output. Time has become our ally. Only the fully automated factory solution makes economic sense as the new millinium bears down on us. Now you know why I believe that FRX technology is far superior to all others that I have investigated. Best regards, Crandell Addington