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Technology Stocks : TouchStone S/W (TSSW) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BGL who wrote (2159)	8/12/1998 8:16:00 PM
From: Robert L. Blythin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3627

Your comment is absolutely correct... Betting on Touchstone is an investment "Hail Mary." No less important than having a world beater product, is the ability to consistently invest large sums in channel marketing and advertising. This, in addition to a pipeline of products ready for launch, which further requires substantial sums for R&D. All this is crucial in a day and age when a product's life span is measured in just a few months. To believe Touchstone, with meager revenues and an $11 million bank account can succeed in the utility market, you have to believe they have enough capital, marketing savvy and technical horsepower to take on the likes of Norton et al, not to mention Microsoft which over time increasingly adds diagnostic tools to Windows and NT. Touchstone's numbers over the past few years demonstrates, at least up to now, that they are not up to the task. As a buy-out candidate, who knows? Typically with software companies, precedence is given to the value of a company's technology and intellectual capital versus cash-on-hand. So what's it all worth?