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Technology Stocks : OBJECT DESIGN Inc.: Bargain of the year!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2596)	12/4/1998 4:56:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

Bob... You should change your glasses: it's not Livewire, it's Live Picture Inc.! Anyway, I think that the synergy between Live Picture Inc. and Object Design Inc. is obvious: show me just one single Live Picture customer who is not at the same time a potential ODIS customer. The vice-versa story might not be that true though. Of course, Live Picture's product line wasn't co-developed with ODIS! Actually, it wasn't developed with anybody beside Kodak (CEO Fisher is one of Live Picture Chairman J. Sculley's pals). Live Picture's expertise is all about images, hence the Live Picture Image Server(tm). So the synergy is for the raw data (video blobs) to get stored on the Live Picture Image Server while the metadata get managed on ObjectStore. Right now, there's a splendid window of opportunity for ODIS to get in bed with Live Picture: Live Picture Re-Structures As CEO Resigns By Regina Kwon Senior Editor, Internet World [December 3, 1998] Kathleen Mitchell resigned from her position as president and CEO of Internet imaging software vendor Live Picture Inc. today as part of a companywide reorganization. Several other positions were also eliminated, according to Live Picture's senior director of corporate marketing, Kate Hutchison, who said, "We are agressively looking for a replacement," said Hutchison. Chief financial officer and co-founder Mark Kalow has been appointed acting CEO. In addition to the staff cuts, Live Picture is restructuring its business strategy, said Hutchison. The company will maintain its LivePix and Zoom product lines, but will reduce the resources behind its document-distribution and -sharing initiative. Mitchell left on "amicable" terms, according to Hutchison. "[The restructuring] was a chance for Kate to look at her opportunities and make her choice," she said. A former senior vice president of marketing at Oracle, Mitchell had been appointed to the Live Picture post in June of 1997. Mitchell was not available for comment. ----------------------------- As you can see, this Kate Mitchell was a former ORCL exec.... Apparently, she couldn't resist sticking by her former employer's product line: so Live Picture was brought over to Oracle8i. I wish Live Picture's next CEO will be more ODIS-friendly. Gustave.