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

To: Key West who wrote (1580)	11/10/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Re: "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 you make very valid points here when one surmises why this stock hasn't gained, obviously! WS is not investing in it. But to think WS knows what's to come is saying you have knowledge of every investor who deals on WS. There are many facets of WS so depending on which facet you are referring to when you say WS is anybody's guess. If WS was so smart stocks would never rise and fall with such suddenness at times, obviously! it happens because WS did not know what the future held for any particular company at any particular time. Why just today a stock being covered by CNBC had stayed stagnant for 3 or 4 years and then suddenly moved up over 5 point or so (I don't remember exactly but that's not the point). WS is nothing more than millions of investors some manipulating some guessing some dealing on insider knowledge etc etc etc. WS will fall in love with INPR just as quickly as any other stock. OBVIOUSLY INPR HAS NO HYPE IN IT'S PRICE WHATSOEVER AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHY I LIKE THE STOCK AT THIS TIME. EVERYONE INCLUDING WS WILL BE FOOLED BY IT SUCCESS AND NO ONE WILL BE SUPRISED BY IT'S FAILURE. THAT SPELLS PROFIT IN MY BOOK IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME. The potential for this company to go from earning small (peanuts) for their old products to earning millions (megabucks) for their new products is too great an opportunity to pass up at this time. I could say it's too early and there are alot better things to do with my money now but I don't know precisely when it will happen I just know it will. Why just today I missed a 32+ rise in EBAY! but I didn't know it was going to happen. The potential for the same thing to happen to INPR is there in the future! I am only a loser if and when I say it's over I'm getting out now. I don't think they are going out of business so I can wait it out! TTOSBT