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To: David who wrote (12355)	2/4/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: Badger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Rob -- I have always appreciated your cold showers on IDX because they speak the bottom-line truth about the stock. As I have said before there is often a disconnect between the stock and the company on this thread. You, I feel, are concerned squarely about the stock and its potential performance. I am in the same boat. I for one could not care less if Randy Fowler stood on the street corner and took fingerprints himself, as long as it made money and the stock went up, I'd be happy. My question for you is: is there anything that can be done, short of exiting the stock altogether? I guess the question is: Is IDX a lost cause? Can anything be done as shareholders to make something happen? Or is it time to move to the AOL's and DELL's of this world? I'm getting awfully tired of being a cheerleader on the sideline for a team whose head coach can't get it together. Please Rob--I would appreciate a thoughtful response from you. Thanks ahead of time. Badger

To: David who wrote (12355)	2/4/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: Caroline and Daughters	Respond to of 26039

I have always held Dr. Fowler in high respect. My agreeing with Robert Cordiano does not change that. Although Dr. Fowler may be a brilliant engineer, he may also be lacking in supervisory skills. One cannot be everything all the time. If he does not delegate then he is bogging himself down with tasks that he should be delegating. If he doesn't trust those around him enough to delegate then he has either made the wrong picks or verifies my thoery that he is not a good manager. He allowed the Oracle deal to slip about two years ago, a good manager would have had progress checks all along and not waited until the bus had left. Now we must run like hell to catch up and we are at the mercy of the driver. A good manager would also have bird dogged the specs writing for the INS and sort of made sure that no one else can match the specs. Now that may not have been possible but losing the contract is certainly not a feather in anybody's cap. A good manager would also "plant" articles about airport security and kindle the public's interest in biometrics and O'hare before it becomes too hairy also. Instead of spending money on Western Guard, ads with pictures and psuedo interviews about the acceptance of biometrics to seed the public's mind would be a far more effective use of the resources. This however needs somebody with an assigned mission and time on their hands. Dr. Fowler is either too honest to do that or does not have the time to think about it. It is not a dishonet act to exploit peoples' fears. What I am trying to say is that Mr. Fowler should hand the controls of day to day bird dogging to someone else and devote his talents to whatever he may be good at. Politics, PR and followups all eat up time and he only has so much of it. That is why these aspects which increase shareholder value and attract the eyes of new businesses have been wanting for so long. Grunt