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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2696)	11/2/1998 5:40:00 PM
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PC MAGAZINE Nov17,1998 First Looks E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE For Sale on the Web "...Alpha Software's Online Merchant includes all you need to set up your own store on the Web...to test the software, we used it to create your own store...if you'd like to get your feet wet with Internet commerce, Online Merchant is worth a look. It might be your first step on the road to online riches..." source: © copyright Ziff-Davis Publishing PC MAGAZINE November 18, 1998 issue First Looks, page 76. ...precisely dovetails [and confirms/validates] what we have been urging all along re Om...this product [v. Professional Edition] simply should [be]/have been positioned as a mass merchandised defacto standard [e]Book on e-commerce published by the likes of a Simon & Schuster as an impulse [must-have] item with POP displays at all checkout counters of all [physical and internet] computer and book mass merchandisers (.)...with the above PC MAGAZINE testimonial emblazoned across said 'book' and POP displays and banner ads...[at the very minimum]...anything less is simply suicide and viz a viz said PC MAGAZINE Review issue on 16 [and exponentially? growing] existing e-commerce competitors in this deadly competitive and equally burgeoning market niche...competitive advantage...superior perceived value...brand equity...shareholder value maximization...

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2696)	11/3/1998 3:02:00 AM
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>>PC MAGAZINE REVIEW:"Sell it ON THE WEB" Feature Story: HMAPPS? Commerce Made Simple "...Teaming SimpleNet's hosting service with Miva Corp's e-commerce package Miva Merchant, Commerce Made Simple (CMS)...offers a relatively complete set of order-processing features but lacks an authoring tool...of the products we looked at, CMS is the only one that does not provide any Web site development or page authoring tools...will limit the market for CMS among small and medium-size companies that feel more comfortable with a single-source solution. Not having a front-end development tool also introduces design problems...Commerce Made Simple and Miva Merchant are in the early stages of their development...SimpleNet needs to bolster the authoring, site administration, and reporting features to compete with the more well-rounded packages reviewed in this roundup..." source: * WHAT?!...so what the hell is HMAPPS all about??? and where is THAT review?!?!?!...one for the Rabins?...perhaps they saw the handwriting on the wall before we did [and now with Online Merchant's critical acclaim???]....this pretty much confirms SoftQuad Inc as a sink hole and [still] with [no] marketing as evidenced by the ignominious absence of HMAPPS in this PC MAGAZINE feature cover story review...SoftQuad Inc simply HAS to be a SIMPLE\|NET acquisition pursuant to this article or whomever is funding SIMPLE\|NET should simply shut them down also and cut their losses... SIMPLE\|NET Miva/CMS simplenet.com miva.com HMAPPS CMS sq.com and HoTMetaL Pro 5.0 sq.com ??? ...again, does this [Nov 17 PC MAGAZINE Feature Cover Story <http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/e-comm_prod98/index.html>] confirm SIMPLE\|NET is SoftQuad Inc.'s acquiror?....it unequivocally? confirms that SoftQuad Inc is a sink-hole [to SoftQuad International (NASD OTC BB:SWEBF)(TSE:SKI)]... *&copy copyright 1998 Ziff Davis Publishing