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

To: hasbeen101 who wrote (2600)	12/7/1998 8:52:00 AM
From: Bob Trocchi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3194

Damien... >>The scary thing is that every prospect I talk to seems deterred by ObjectStore's price<< Given that you are on the "front lines" of selling, you have a much better feeling than most. If you feel it is too high, then I would trust your opinion. In this kind of environment, I am a big proponent of market share especially among getting the developers to use the product. Once you have sold them, license revenue should flow, assuming the product is good, very quickly to the bottom line. The MSFT model is one that has proven to be VERY profitable. Without all the details surrounding this product, my guess is that it was or has been priced based on benefits to a customer and not on rapidly gaining market share. From what I have read, a lot supplied by you, Object Store very greatly improves performance in a number of situations. This may be true but it is a very hard sell when going up against the likes of established DB vendors. Bob T.

To: hasbeen101 who wrote (2600)	12/7/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3194

The latest about online music: LP to CD to MP3 No matter how hard the record companies try to stop it, the MP3 audio format is the future of music. By Mark Frauenfelder If you want the No. 1 single on Billboard's chart, you can either buy the CD at the store, buy the CD online, tape it from a friend or get it as a free MP3 file on the Internet. Lately, lots of people have found the last option to be the easiest, fastest – and cheapest – way to add to their music collection. It's also illegal. Motion Picture Experts Group-1 audio layer three, or MP3, offers highly compressed, high-quality audio files that can be distributed over the Net. It's a file compression format invented in 1991 by a German research firm, the Fraunhofer Institute, that squeezes songs to one-twelfth the size of an audio CD file. Developed for broadcast uses, MP3 eventually found its way onto the Internet as the ideal way to send music files back and forth. And that makes the recording industry very nervous. Digital recording technology has long been considered a threat, because the quality of a copy is just as good as that of the original. But the Internet adds a whole new dimension to the problem. It was bad enough when one person could make a copy of a song and give it to a friend. Now, that same person can upload a song and make it available to millions. In less than 15 minutes, anyone with Net access can download a song and listen to it on computer speakers. All you need is an application that can decode the format. Dozens of free programs allow users to play MP3s from their computers. The makers of the most popular shareware MP3 player, WinAmp, claim that more than 5 million people have downloaded the program, and "mp3" ranks as the second-most-popular search-engine term after "sex." If you want to play the song on something other than computer speakers, several companies offer small Walkman-like players that store MP3 files in solid-state memory, such as the Rio, made by Diamond Multimedia in San Jose, Calif, which is priced around $200. With a CD recorder (also around $200, and dropping by the month), you can burn the song onto your very own audio CD. The full 4-pages report is available on thestandard.com