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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (3826)	9/10/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: andrew peterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11417

<<I am removing my SI bookmark. This way, I can avoid the stains when you guys throw tomatoes at me>> What a chicken. It's a lot easier to make inflammatory comments like these if you don't stick around for the rest of the conversation. Well, at least now we can talk about him behind his back. About, for instance, how he could possibly claim that this smart card reader is "Basically...a peripheral that functions the same way as WAVX chip does." If that's true, VSRN and Gemplus have some big patent problems on their hands. How is a smart card reader like a meter? How can a smart card reader possibly perform any sort of metering function? And what about encryption? Well, we'll never know, since Doc has moved on. Oh, well. The bottom line is that there is nothing out there that functions the same way the WAVX chip does. And someone who wants to convince me otherwise is going to have to make a lot better case than this.

To: M. Frank Greiffenstein who wrote (3826)	9/11/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Marty Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Frank.. You're being precipitous. Smart card technology will not likely supplant but, rather, supplement the avant-garde innovation Wave Systems technologies represents. There is nothing about the VRSN and Gemplus smart card reader that is particularly new to the smart card industry and nothing about it that will leap frog over the EASY addition of micro-processors with hardware encryption, EDS and e-commerce capabilities already built into computer devices as a matter of value added convenience (and revenue generation for those who add the chips to their devices). It's obviously too early to declare anyone has "failed" to execute. Especially WAVX. Smart cards as "meter-readers" have quite a ways to go toward acceptance as they've not even been developed.. yet. And who do you guess is quite likely to see their development through? You've got it! WAVX! Now, off to my Jacuzzi and pool, Marty