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Technology Stocks : Quarterdeck: Making a Striking Comeback! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. Kittle who wrote (3241)	10/15/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Respond to of 3307

I'm in over 8, and to be honest, to me it looks pretty fair. Here's why: 1) negative book value of 38 cents/share 2) dead product portfolio, the only thing of interest is cleansweep All of their products have competitors that are just about as good if not better. Cleansweep gets all the awards, but it ain't that much better than all the other uninstallers, its only of value to Symantec because of that court case they just lost. Anti-virus? Macafee and Norton. Crash-defender? Cybermedia and norton. Winprobe/Tuneup? Macafee and Norton. Diskclone/partition it? PowerQuest and Norton/Ghost. Zip-it? Norton and Mijenix (who kicks everyone's butt in this category) Qemm? Hah! Procomm? Norton and Traveling Software, there is even some good free stuff Webcompass? Nice but too obscure. IWare? Artisoft, WinGate, etc... Quarterdeck just stopped innovating and became just another utility company without a single unique product, much less any sort of killer utility like Qemm was. Personally, as a holder of Inprise, Symantec's competitor in the java development world, I'm hoping that Symantec's acquisition of Quarterdeck just drags them down, $65M is about 25% of Symantec's total cash and all they get out of it is Cleansweep.

To: J. Kittle who wrote (3241)	10/16/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Dawgfool	Respond to of 3307

There will not be any lawsuit. Scumbag lawyers would only pursue this if they felt the company could come up with money to pay the legal fees. I do not believe that is the case here. Plus, I can assure you that QDEK has dotted i's and crossed t's on all the internal data they can show that this company was down the drain if left stand-alone. ie they will show that .52 is better than 0 and zero is what it would be w/o deal. Only chance to get more money is a better offer. Otherwise take your money and be happy.