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Technology Stocks : S3 (A LONGER TERM PERSPECTIVE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (12500)	12/30/1998 8:36:00 PM
From: Jan A. Van Hummel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14577

Don, I concur. I am a small business owner and will replace all PCs the coming year. What was state-of-the-art a few years ago, now is slower than a snail with the brakes on. While my current PCs are still functional, increased use of the Internet make the shortcomings increasingly evident. My guess, this pretty much would be anyone's viewpoint who finds him- or herself in the same position. Y2K only reinforces the feeling that now is the right time. As to S3, I have been lurking. Never sold a share, only bought a little at a time to average down, but admittedly, felt scared when it dipped below 2 and did not dare to buy. The future appears bright, but it will take some good quarters to make the market a believer. The recent activity probably has put a lot of stock in strong hands. Once the stock will take off, we may be in for a great ride. In the meantime we will continue to tread water and there may be some changes to add at lower levels. This time I won't be afraid.

To: Don Earl who wrote (12500)	12/31/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: JerryP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14577

Hi Don, Based on my eavesdropping on posts between George and Frank, it's my understanding that lubrication IS good. What do I know. "Granted that there are a lot of large networks that won't require more than a software patch..." I'm sure that you didn't intend to minimize what's involved with the Y2K issue with that statement. We just released a version of our software that included changes for the Y2K issue. The Y2K changes affected 40% of the 3000 programs we support. Granted, they weren't major changes, just a lot of them. They only accounted for about 10% of all the changes for enhancements and fixes. AND, supplying our customers with the changes doesn't guarentee that they can't come up with some combination of variables to identify a bug in our Y2K fix. But at least then it's not a Y2K issue...it's just a programming bug. So, when can I get a Savage3D-2 powered card? And, is it going to be worthwhile if all I have is a 133 non-MMX chip? JP "Onward", George, and upWARD Come on 8 something!!