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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TTOSBT who wrote (1579)	11/10/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: Key West	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

<< Now I ask you does that mean that INPR will not succeed in the future?>> This thread has been waiting a long time for Inprise to prove itself, at what point do we stop dreaming and realize that Inprise has failed its shareholders miserably for most of the nineties. Yes, the diluter runs a different company today than what existed 2 years ago. I've learned over the years that the market is very efficient over the long haul, and the market is telling you something here. Despite all the technical talk here about enterprise applications, no one has answered these basic questions: Despite all the rhetoric about "being halfway into a 12 quarter turnaround", why has Del failed to attract any first tier following on WS? Why have we not seen any significant insider buying? What were the real reasons for Visigenic's CEO's sudden departure? The market only cares about one thing. Not "long term potential" or "a great story", certainly not "a turnaround", "discount to book", or even "cash per share". No, the only thing the market gives a rat's ass about is explosive or predictable sequential earnings growth. In this regard, Inprise has proven itself to be a miserable failure. I don't profess to understand most of the technical enterprise exchanges that go on here, but I know that Del and Inprise have failed to draw the respect of WS. And WS ain't THAT dumb. Gene