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Gold/Mining/Energy : Aastra Technologies - telephony, e-cash, mini-ATM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockPro who wrote (45)	1/13/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: sPD	Respond to of 233

>> it doesn't seem as if Aastra is promotionally minded at this time ... they don't seem to be seeking the spotlight. There are indications that might tend to support your statement: - news releases are issued through a variety of services (e.g. most thru CCN, the major Dec. 9 one via CNW, the options one yesterday via ISDN) - no mention of plans for the smart card terminal in releases prior to the Dec 22 release - the Dec. 22 release itself issued when most investors minds are elsewhere. At any rate I am very pleased with a low profile approach, if indeed it is planned to be that way. I would prefer management to focus on operating and building the business rather than spend effort in satisfying investor and analyst queries. If you're good, your results will speak for themselves and be reflected in the stock price eventually. It seems to have worked for them so far!

To: StockPro who wrote (45)	1/13/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: sPD	Respond to of 233

Nortel to increase outsourcing [Extracts from a Nortel release today. Nortel won't be the last] Nortel Networks To Accelerate Streamlining of Business Processes Company to Realize Significant Improvement in Time to Market and Operational Efficiencies TORONTO, Jan. 13 /CNW/ - Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT/TSE: NTL) announced today the acceleration of its operations strategy designed to better meet the rapidly changing needs and values of its customers worldwide. The strategy will simplify and streamline Nortel Networks' businesses and operations processes, including the company's order-entry and fulfillment, delivery, service and manufacturing systems over the next three years. A key element of the company's strategy is the transition from vertical integration -making and assembling most of its products and systems- to virtual integration, acting as a systems house linking customers, design centers, internal production centers, contract manufacturers and other resources. [snip] The operations strategy will involve plant divestitures, manufacturing rationalization, greater reliance on outsourcing and redeployment of employees. [snip] As the program evolves over the next 18-36 months [snip] The era of mega-telecom projects with long product-development cycles is coming to an end as the new economics of networking take hold. The explosive growth of the Internet and data networking is accelerating the shift in Nortel Networks' product mix from hardware to software. [snip]