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To: Jeffrey Beckman who wrote (112)	11/28/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: stockvalinvestor	Respond to of 1530

To: Tom Hua (47 ) From: kenneth weiss Saturday, Nov 28 1998 12:05PM ET Reply # of 52 CUST looks like it could be one of the next big movers in internet stocks. They are going into customized music on the internet. The stock is selling for 7 1/4 per share and has over 5 per share in cash to work with. Also the company's CEO is former head of Blockbuster so he has some great contacts. The company is currently working on solidifying deals with all of the record labels which would make them the 1st company on the internet to have customized cd's and permission from all of the record labels to sell the product assuming all is approved. Looks like a great value play right now that could give huge rewards in the future.

To: Jeffrey Beckman who wrote (112)	11/28/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: GARY P GROBBEL	Respond to of 1530

Jeff...for e-commerce to work the back end has to be able to communicate with the storefront, and VETX (OTC BB $1.50) has the products that allow that to happen. They just released a new middleware solution for e-commerce called 'evolve', written in XML. I think the language here is significant. BridgeNet and Netweave are two other middleware products...Netweave rev last year grew from $100k to almost $1m and BridgeNet sales were up about 25%. All products are designed to allow the front end to communicate w/the customer's legacy systems. VETX finished the year in July w/record backlog of $4.5m, which included a large order from Bell Atlantic for data collection devices. Missed in all the Inet/e-commerce buzz is the necessity of middleware solutions so all kinds of different systems from web sites can communicate w/the client/customer/company's legacy systems...and vice-versa. Following is 'evolve' release: Vertex Announces 'evolve,' the First Extensible Markup Language (XML) Interface for Legacy Systems SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertex Industries, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VETX - news), a leading systems integration and middleware solutions provider, announced today the availability of ''evolve,'' the first legacy-to-web integration product that uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) interface. The new product announcement was made at the International Tandem Users Group (ITUG) show in San Jose, CA. Through the use of XML, the emerging standard for describing data on the web, ''evolve'' has the ability to take self-descriptive messages and exchange them with legacy applications in their native form. Traditional messaging middleware requires applications to be concerned with the representation of message data on disparate platforms. Rather than using traditional messaging middleware to access remote applications, ''evolve'' allows front-end applications to benefit from flexible data definition and message population, while permitting legacy applications to work with the native format messages they are accustomed to. '''evolve' is the natural evolution of classic middleware into Web-based computing,'' said Ron Byer, President and CEO of Vertex Industries, Inc. '''evolve' extends your business enterprise to your customers on the web, by reducing your time-to-market for web applications that require interaction with corporate MIS infrastructure,'' continued Byer. ''evolve'' allows web-enabled users in any industry to check inventory availability, track order status, transfer funds and pay bills. It does so by providing the framework for applications that can interact with corporate systems in a straightforward manner. The need for human intervention, redundant data stores, duplicate data keying and lengthy mainframe rewrites is eliminated. Vertex Industries, Inc. is a middleware integration specialist with specific focus on data collection solutions and the integration of E-Commerce applications with existing, computing infrastructures. The company has generated success stories in both the United States and internationally. Vertex customers include AT&T, Credit Lyonnais, Dell Computers, Tenneco Packaging, Bell Atlantic, MCI, and the New Zealand Stock Exchange. SOURCE: Vertex Industries, Inc.