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To: Neil Booth who wrote (1073)	8/31/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: ED_L	Respond to of 5102

Government Computer News had an article that COHEN is telling the Defense Department that they have (about two months) to get their Y2000 work back on schedule or he will stop all new Software development work. Defense Department has thousands of systems that have slipped target dates to resolve the Y2K problem. That will not help INPR if it comes to pass.

To: Neil Booth who wrote (1073)	8/31/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: Mark Bracey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

I'm waiting for $2.50 Are you being an alarmist or is there a reason? I thought we did quite well, considering. It's odd. For some reason, I couldn't sleep last night. I've been up since 1:30 a.m. and early this morning I was thinking today would be a 500 point drop. I hate it when I'm right. But I left this morning at about 10:30 a.m. and down only 130 but INPR was at 5 3/16. After hearing of the drop on the radio I was quite concerned but felt better after logging in just now. So what's your feeling from your side of the world?

To: Neil Booth who wrote (1073)	8/31/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: R. Martenson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Since 1990, Inprise has not gone below $4.00+ And certainly the company is as sound and promising as any time in the last 10 years. I chose $4.50 as a historical base of emotional panic, when analysts of stocks were not suffering from hypoxia. Below $5.00 "respectible" stocks gain an air of "gee what a bargain" or they become damaged goods. I think the market will see it as a bargain and the investment community or a professional entity will jump in with both feet. I certainly don't have a crystal ball, but if true market panic, from the small investor, to the mutual fund manager sets in, then all bets are losers and the bottom will be as irrational as the tops of the last few years of tech stocks. I think the key to market panic in the next few days will be events in Russia and North Korea. Inprise, like a thousand other stocks, is just along for the ride at this point. I suspect alot of investment professionals will start telling us what a bargin stocks are at, and soon! After all they have to unload their inventory to someone...especially when the Mutual Fund managers start dumping stocks for cash.