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Technology Stocks : Manugistics, Inc. (MANU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (930)	9/16/1998 1:53:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1670

I just feel that people need to give the mgmt of these small enterprise software companies a break. Im referring to the comments about not caring about shareholders etc. First of all with any of these smaller players they lose one or 2 deals and thats it, they miss. Everybody knows when they lose the deal, the competition, the customer, analysts, everybody. And often this happens at the eleventh hour too. As Ive said it also appears Manu has some inexperienced mgmt (not referring to Gibson here) and they may have made some mistakes in judging how to handle revenue in the past. Keep in mind SCM is the hardest of the enterprise apps to gauge strategically - youve got the y2k and saturation problems present for the other spaces, and then the added complexity of the ERPs creating all kinds of noise around the space. Im not forgiving Manu mgmt I just doubt all these problems are evidence of lack of concern regarding the shareholders. Michelle

To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (930)	9/16/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: Rashley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1670

It's tough trading stocks when you're in the boondocks and the market opens at 3:30 AM. Any pieces of info on MANU that people are willing to share will be greatly appreciated. I saw the opening time of the market and knew where you were. I was in Kapaa this summer vacationing while my largest holding took a 30% hit. I was sleeping soundly while my money was waving bye-bye. Access to the Internet would have made things a bit better. Which brings me to my point. WSJ Online, which includes Barron's Online is $4.95/mo. No travelling the 35 mile road to Kapaa either :-) RA