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Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (2133)	2/3/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Cube	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Charles: viwes.com Click on this to rebut your claim that, That's why almost all the shorts have disappeared again until the next quarterly report. They aint disappearing bud, they're growing. Now regarding, I think most selling pressure on this stock comes from shorts and day traders. That is truly incredible. You just can't fathom the idea that the selling is due to negative revenue growth, and negative earnings growth (factoring out investment income.) Charles, without that investment income INPR lost money on declining revenues. Is this the kind of company that deserves a 45 PE??? If you want to continue to keep your head in the sand, that is entirely your call. Just understand that when you blame this on short sellers and daytraders, you are ignoring the obvious. Cube

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (2133)	2/3/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 5102

Re: " Shorts will fuel a nice rally if Borland.com or Inprise ever gets some good news." Shorts will fuel a rally in the second half of this year. Some of them will get totally destroyed the lucky ones will get out with a small loss. That is the beauty of this stock IMO the longs will never get destroyed unless they do it to themselves by selling in panic. This company will be bought out before it ever goes to $3 or $4 so to short it is totally stupid STU PID! The only time to short a stock is when there is the potential for it to fall off a cliff and not when it has the potential to gain faster than it will drop. Common sense is all it takes. And I also agree with your statement: "Asian, Latin American and European currency issues and performance that hurt them the last quarter should reverse and produce a pop 1st quarter." IMO that's the reason the stock in down if I remember correctly when Asian was doing good INPR was up near $12. Of course Del's timing couldn't of been worse with the move to the enterprise business just before the Asia and Latam crisis became public knowledge. But the company has held it's own by making some fair investments to keep the earnings steady til the growth starts up again. I think this is an undervalued stock and no SHORTS are going to change that fact. TTOSBT