To: Dean Dumont who wrote (7085 ) 7/26/1998 10:18:00 PM From: James Harold Alton Respond to of 19331
bgtit, I agree that this may prove to be an interesting week. First the stock price. While OLIE remains on the ASK, we know he has been losing shares daily for a long time now. I wish I knew for sure how many shares were left, but I am hoping that we will see some continued buying from the Locus definitive news this coming week. Add to this anticipation about what Mr. Murphy might have been saving to tell us at the shareholders meeting while factoring in that we know we have 4 companies that have been looking at us for a while now, and I for one am hoping that we will see enough buying coming in to knock Mr. OLIE out of the box and let us start moving up. Actually we have moved up .03 for 2 trading days in a row, fairly insignificant from a price standpoint, but interesting nonetheless that OLIE has apparently started to take his foot off of us as opposed to OLIE's earlier actions of walking the ASK down on steady buying. It's my impression that something has changed.. Next, it's sure going to be interesting to get to meet the Marine in person next Thursday, along with some of the people I have exchanged email or bb notes with, but never actually met. The anticipation for me with regards to the upcoming meeting is fairly high. I know that Murphy wants to surprise us with something really nice, but he isn't talking, so I guess that we will all have to just wait and see what he has to say. (G) Finally, I am still really excited about the fact that Locus is now a definitive deal. The process of bringing that division aboard seemed to take an unusually long time, and I was really getting concerned that there was a problem, obviously that was not the case. While I am sure that Murphy could have found us a replacement, bringing Locus aboard completed a very important chapter for DCI by putting us at or above the 100 million mark. This tells me that Murphy if he so chooses is now finished with the acquisitions work and can focus all of his energies entirely on the final chapter...selling DCI. How long will this take? Wish I knew, but it appears to me that the really hard part is now done and that we have gone from "let's see if Murphy can really build us a 100 million+ company and sell it for many times what our stock is trading at now, to "I wonder how much longer it will take Murphy to sell this company for many times what our stock is trading at". (G) Folks, I think that we... all of us are going to make it. (G) James