To: Sean Rieber who wrote (3869 ) 8/18/1998 12:40:00 PM From: Dixie7777 Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 44908
To be sure there have been missed dates on the "live" site. However, if the site is not right it would be foolish to open. Let's understand that TSIG is doing everything they can to make the date. They do respond to the shareholders when timing is requested. Let's also understand that when we get these responses they are always a best guess estimate. Now, for those of us that have run business's in the past as well as now, we love people that meet deadlines. Business runs on deadlines. Customers will very often bail on missed deadlines. Software programming is/will always be an imprecise art as much as it is supposed to be a science. Same problem will be solved differently by every programmer assigned. TSIG/CCSI is in the process of building a major Netmerce site. I mean major. They have contracted this to an outside vendor with a relatively good if not very good reputation. They, TSIG/CCSI also have a number of other details to get into place; i.e. fulfillment, (done,) distribution/distributors, (in process,) internal programming, (I don't know where this is at,) and numerous other aspects of this essentially new enterprise. There are no, let me repeat NO customers clamoring/complaining for the site to be live. Just shareholders, and some of those that are complaining the loudest are questionable as to their motives and even their supposed shareholder status. (Not aimed at you Sean.) If IBM made every date for the release of software they promised their customers there might not ever be a Microsoft. On that note, if Microsoft met every anticipated date of completion for announced software, it's hard to imagine where the share price would be today. If SUN met.... If Siemens met... If Oracle met... Now I hope it's obvious that this date is more important to people that at this point in time come in second, behind customers, namely shareholders. Especially when you understand that BB investors usually have the attention span the length of a piss ant's whatever. So in conclusion, calm down, lengthen your time horizon's a bit, understand the company is real, is not going anywhere and will be live when everything is right for the CUSTOMER. Rich