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Technology Stocks : FBN Associates - Year 2000/Y2K IPO!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (2317)	12/10/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

Jeff: Re: FBN-DIR2000 ... Great idea! After we get clients hooked on the .EXE version, we can charge them an upgrade to include .COM. Then, *.DLL. Golly. What a money mill! OK, so we don't have 500,000 entries in our database. Is 2 enough? TED

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (2317)	12/10/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Hoatzin	Respond to of 2770

we've written a program that parses the file, compares each item to those in our 500,000 item FBN database, and automatically sends back to you a list of which files are non Y2K compliant Sure, that sounds good. Of course, we won't waste time writing actual software. Norma can just have one of her staff check by hand during lunch breaks. Should we test-market FBN DIR 2000 now? No, why the rush? I think we should wait until October 1999, at least. We will still be months ahead of HASHCO.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (2317)	12/10/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 2770

Jeff, Actually this version of the database software is an embedded SQL program that without getting too deeply into trade secrets is conceptually similar to the following: (SELECT * FROM NON_COMPLIANT_PROGRAM_TBL) > response.mail The customer has total flexibility since it's up to them to match the response with the exefiles.txt. In fact, they don't need to send the text file at all, but doing so seems to increase their confidence in the system. The typical output is "(0) rows found", which seems to thrill most of our customers, instills confidence and lowers anxiety as they march forward to the next millennium. The only problems reported are from some pesky software reviewers, but they don't seem to want to pay for the software. Software reviewers seems to be a less profitable market then paying customers... Tom