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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin who wrote (4754)	12/6/1998 5:23:00 AM
From: Marty Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Seriously… 209.67.31.6 : Vignette Is it worthy of comment? More than our WAVX? What the heck is going on at Raging Bull? Also, didn't the little folks running raging bullsh__ downgrade WAVEPHORE post hoc, ergo propter hoc? Aren't you glad their incandesce seems not to be aware of WAVX? Looking over the Motley Fools' site, I get a same and similar feeling. Their ‘stock up and down grades' is a section put there for the same ‘reason' the boys might have put ‘your stock horoscope' in there as well. Give the people what they want! Right Tommy and Davy? May I suggest the film ELMER GANTRY? Watching Burt Lancaster's performance, use your imagination. Try and transfer the working-you-over world of transcendental dreamers into the financial brokers' world of worship to their gods; their working-you-over world of anal-ysts and advisers divining everyones' way to hope and hell. Just look at the tents they set up. Aren't their circuses much the same? Oh well, I'll make my stay with WAVX rather than jump on Vignette's IPO. And I'll stick here at SI with you guys.. you're the best….. Marty

To: Kevin who wrote (4754)	12/6/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: andrew peterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

I suspect that it will play out the same way it has with credit cards. Once Embassy is out there in a zillion devices, it will be so convenient and attractive that people won't NOT be able to use it. They won't be able to stop themselves and the simplicity and convenience of it will completely over-ride any concerns about security. Therefore it's just a matter of getting Embassy onto as many devices as possible. Fortunately Wave doesn't have to do a poll of computer users to get approval to get the device into PCs -- if it worked that way, we might have a backlash on our hands based on the perception that privacy was being compromised. But since we don't, I haven't been all that worried about this perception undermining Wave's efforts at deployment. All they have to do is to cut the deals with the OEMs. If I were speaking for the company and these concerns arose, I'd simply say that the bottom line is that anyone who doesn't want to use Embassy doesn't have to -- even if it's on their computer, it's not activated unless they want it to be. But I'd know, as I said this, that as with a credit card the temptation to use it will be fierce and irresistible.