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Technology Stocks : VALENCE TECHNOLOGY (VLNC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FMK who wrote (5258)	11/17/1998 8:48:00 PM
From: Dennis V.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

Well, FMK, it does appear that there will be a looming disparity in our collective ability to give informed opinions with respect to Valence's patents as opposed to, say, financing, of which I thought the group gave a good accounting(no pun). There just isn't enough technical expertise and it would be a can of worms with no balanced conclusions in sight. There are only a few people in the country who could survey all these and adjudge the merit, timeliness, legalities , competitiveness, cost effectiveness, and on and on. Moreover, of the people who could do this, I would guess about two thirds of them work for Valence. From where we stand, inferential data are going to be our main guideposts. Insider buying and a host of other examples point to a positive outcome. There are negatives, mainly the lack of guarantees, but if such were given, the stock would already be out of our price range. I strongly urge the threadsters to avoid this course of discussion. I do believe , without belittling what has been offered so far, that attempts to pontificate on this esoteric subject will be a fool's errand.

To: FMK who wrote (5258)	11/17/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: Pronichev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Fred I am long Vlnc, I have 26.000 shares and my first buy was around June 97 (I think) at 8 I have made most of my buys beginning last spring and am in at an average of about five and a half. I beleive, as my friends who don't post here do, that the patents are probably VLNC's greatest strength, but I want to hear more because I don't think my friends have been as diligent as they say. We have nothing to lose by examining the patents in greater detail and in greater depth even though I recongize as previously stated by someone on thread about a month ago that the lag time from application to acceptance and publication is about two years; so the best is probably yet to come. Any way, I want to hear more and of course my DD extends beyond this thread. If I hear something interesting, I'll let you know. What do you think if this HET/TDI thing and their specs of 3.6 volts 800mAh I respect most of your input. Please keep it up Thanks Michael.

To: FMK who wrote (5258)	11/17/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: john t. brice	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

FMK I would be curious to hear your thoughts concerning one danger I, at least, haven't heard discussed anywhere else. What happens if VLNC gets a contract, starts to move up and a hostile takeover is attempted at 15-20? Is this a possibility or even a probability? If it did occur what would be the probability of success? Would our heavily invested wealthy insiders stand with the small investor or would they fold the tents? duckster