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To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2566)	11/24/1998 3:48:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3194

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2566)	11/24/1998 3:48:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3194

Bob... Maybe it would be better if ODIS's going up on its own merit... C'mon! Bob, the stockmarket is not about meritocracy!! If you're looking for securities moving up and down ''on their own merit'', you'd better search for some T-bonds or other fixed-income products. On the Nasdaq, misvaluation is the name of the game: a stock is either outrageously overvalued (even MSFT Prez Ballmer admitted that his company was overvalued) or blatantly undervalued. And ODIS falls in the latter slot. At $6.5 ODIS's still undervalued by 30% --especially since the eXcelon announcement. Besides, here's an interesting development: Sybase pushes back for market share By Randy Weston Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 23, 1998, 7:55 a.m. PT Sybase is on the road again. The database vendor is pushing its mobile computing business with a number of announcements this week including an alliance with Samsung SDS and a new developers network program. Sybase is focusing on three key markets in an attempt to recover from its sagging database sales over the past year. Increasing competition from Oracle and Microsoft and a saturated market have driven the database sales down for all vendors, but Sybase has faired fairly poorly in the battle for market share. To correct the problem, the Emeryville, California-based vendor is targeting the data warehouse business, Internet computing, and the mobile computing market. The deal with Samsung is specifically to target the Korean market. Under the terms of the deal, the companies will jointly market develop and sell mobile products in the Korean market based on Sybase's SQL Anywhere Studio and its UltraLite mobile databases. "Samsung SDS has experienced strong customer demand for mobile and embedded computing [systems]," said Hong-Ki Kim, Samsung SDS's managing director. To further its reach in the domestic remote and mobile market, Sybase is launching a new developer network to encourage software developers to build products using Sybase's embedded mobile database. "The mobile and embedded developers network provides developers with timely and convenient access to beta and release products, technical information, events, and support to ensure the rapid delivery of [software products] based on Sybase SQL Anywhere Studio and its UltraLite deployment technology," Sybase executives said in a statement. Sybase is expected to expand the program to include early access to products and beta versions, bug fixes, online training, and self-service support. ----------------------------- As I told you in a previous post, Samsung Electronics will be the first consumer electronics heavy to market an MPEG 3-recordable device in the US (similar to Diamond Multimedia's Rio). So, let's hope for ODIS to counter-attack swiftly on the embedded dbms's battleground... Maybe an embedded version of eXcelon would be a nice move? I mean a VoXML embedded eXcelon that would perfectly fit the smart phone market. BTW, ''dead money'' was up 33% last week... Cheers, Gustave.

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2566)	11/24/1998 4:31:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3194

Diamond cross promotes with Audiohighway.com The developer of a controversial portable player for downloading audio from the Internet will partner with Audiohighway.com, a company which distributes audio books, music and information programs. Audiohighway.com has agreed to support Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300, by offering content from its Web site in the MP3 audio format. Under the agreement, both companies also plan to promote each other's Web sites, including a link to the Diamond Multimedia site allowing users to conveniently purchase a Rio player. Diamond also announced it has begun shipping the Rio player to retailers. E-commerce sites that will carry, or plan to carry, the device include Barnes and Noble College Bookstores, Microwarehouse, and PC Connection. Major retailers stocking, or planning to stock, the Rio PMP300 include Babbages, Fry's Electronics, Circuit City, and J&R Computerworld. Robert Gunderson, Best Buy (BBY) merchandise manager, said "Digital distribution of music via the Internet is here and we intend to be a strong player in both the traditional sale of music, as well as sale over the Internet. The Rio PMP300 is the first of its kind and will be available in Best Buy's 312 stores across the country."

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2566)	11/27/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3194

IBM eyes digital music delivery By Reuters Special to CNET News.com November 27, 1998, 4:00 a.m. PT IBM has reached an agreement with Sony, Warner Music, EMI Group, Universal, and other U.S. record companies to participate in a digital music distribution system, the Financial Times said on Thursday. Known as the Madison Project and scheduled to start next year, the project was a watershed for the music industry as it would enable companies to deliver digital recordings directly to consumers' computers via the Internet and other digital networks, the newspaper said. IBM had invested $20 million in developing the project. Universal, part of Canada's Seagram, was understood to have discussed developing its own technology with U.S. telecoms group AT&T, the Financial Times said. ---------------------------- If IBM Corp's interested in online music then why not ODIS?