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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Saflink Corp. (ESAF) Biometric Software Provider -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bob jordan who wrote (4048)	12/7/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: GoingHikin	Respond to of 4676

I must tell you all that this HAAPI vs. BioAPI is a non-issue. If microsoft provides built-in support for any Biometric API in Win2000 it will be a boon for any and all suppliers of Biometric Authentication software. Adding BioAPI compliance to their SAF software suite is trivial, it just takes a little additional programming. And who cares about inventory, CD's cost less than 25 cents to burn. I can understand if everyone just needs something to talk about to keep this thread going. But every once in a while someone should step in and clarify the facts. NRID needs financing...end of statement. It appears as if NRID wants to maintain the R&D role in this business and delegate the sales and marketing to someone else. That means that these guys have been out there looking for marketing partners. XLVision has taken over their sales to the Healthcare industry... that's one down and two to go. The WebLink deal was supposed to take care of the backend consumer Web server market, but seems to have fallen apart. They need to get someone to pick this up. And finally they need a partner to sell Corporate Securtiy. With no real announcements over the last month, I can only assume that they are out there nocking on doors and getting us those partners. These deals can take months to iron out so you better just hang in there. I think the new year will bring good things. -DL

To: bob jordan who wrote (4048)	12/8/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4676

Merging of BioAPI and BAPI . . . If you look at the BioAPI release today, the role of I/O jumps out at you. I/O has now been "promoted" to insider status in the BioAPI alliance: biz.yahoo.com The difference between a "Promoter/Founder" (I/O, Identicator, etc.) and a "Contributor," according to the BioAPI web site, is that while both give time and resources, etc, and support, the Promoters also "foster the design and creation of an API for Biometric technologies which meets the needs of the broadest Biometrics user and supplier population." In other words, I/O, Identicator and some others will now be on the BioAPI design team, while NRID will be more like a reviewer of the design. To me, the Promoter/Founders have the inside track on this API . . . and it's clear now that this will be THE API for the industry. I do expect the next big news, whenever it comes, is that Microsoft is supporting the API in Windows 2000. Overall, today's announcement is great news for the biometric industry, since it shows a successful standardization is taking place. From NRID's perspective, though, the news isn't all that great. HAAPI has gone by the wayside and without HAAPI, NRID is unlikely to occupy a pole position in the race to provide software to the mainstream market. Instead, the BioAPI Promoter/Founders occupy the inside tracks. Not only that, but there are some big horses on the inside, and it doesn't seem to be all that hard to put up the money to enter this particular race, so we could see more competition arriving. I recognize you are lashed to the mast of NRID, but maybe some other readers of this post aren't.