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To: Spider Valdez who wrote (18862)	2/9/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Rico Staris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 26163

LOOK AT THIS! . . .AZNT IS GOING TO SUE AMAZON RIGHT?....THIS CONFIRMS THEIR CLAIM! . . . . . . Investors suffer from a bit of VERT-igo Ticker symbol confusion lifts bulletin board stock's price By Darren Chervitz, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 3:18 PM ET Feb 9, 1999 Silicon Stocks Software Report NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- VerticalNet is expected to attract strong demand when the Web site publisher begins trading Wednesday, but a small California company is already benefiting from all the excitement. Shares of Vertica Software (VERT-BB), an Emeryville-based technology consultant, rose 1 1/4 to 5 1/4 Tuesday. Apparently, investors are placing orders to buy VerticalNet, which is expected to trade under the ticker symbol "VERT," not realizing that Vertica Software began trading under that same symbol in late January at about one dollar a share. Executives at Vertica Software could not be reached for comment. Tom Armstrong, counsel for Vertica, contacted CBS.MarketWatch.com and said the company was asked by Nasdaq to give up its ticker symbol this morning. Understandably, Armstrong said the company is upset about having to give up a ticker symbol only a few weeks after receiving it. "They [Nasdaq] just kind of muscle you, even though we did everything correct and got the symbol first," said Amrstrong, who works at the Oakland, Calif.-based law firm Bay Venture Counsel. Vertica is "considering its options," he added. Vertica trades on the over-the-counter bulletin board, an exchange operated but not regulated by the Nasdaq Stock Market. VerticalNet is expected to begin trading Wednesday on the more widely-known Nasdaq National Market. While some quotation services, such as Data Broadcasting, tack on a "-BB" at the end of the ticker for a bulletin board stock to denote the difference, many others don't, including most online brokers. Thus, investors who put in an order to buy 100 shares of VERT expecting to get VerticalNet on E-Trade would get shares in Vertica instead. Similar situations have occurred in the past. When Amazon.com (AMZN) went public in 1997, a company called Amazon Natural Treasures with the "AMZN" ticker symbol saw its stock nearly tripled. As is likely to happen in this case, the bulletin board company must give up its ticker symbol a day before the bigger company goes public on the Nasdaq National and Small-Cap markets. Amazon Natural Treasures (AZNT-BB), for instance, now trades under "AZNT" for less than a buck. Wayne Lee, a Nasdaq spokesman, said the exchange had a call in trying to find out when VerticalNet is to begin trading. He could not comment on why Vertica was allowed to get the VERT ticker symbol after VerticalNet had filed for an IPO. While Vertica's stock is benefiting from the confusion now, the story is not likely to have a happy ending. Take the case of Temco Services (TMCO-BB), a building maintenance and security services company trading on the bulletin board market under the "TMCO" ticker. Last December, a news story on the Ticketmaster Online CitySearch (TMCS) IPO went out with Temco's symbol instead of the correct TMCS. Temco's stock temporarily went from the 20s to the mid-60s on much heavier-than-average volume. The stock quickly fell back to the 20s, and it remains there today.

To: Spider Valdez who wrote (18862)	2/9/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26163

an intellectual is to be despised. It's comments like these, Spidey, that make AZNT so much fun! Never in my LIFE have I encountered such a bunch of insecure guys. Chips on their shoulders the size of double-door refrigerators. All men are indeed created equal. But in the sense that our Founding Fathers meant it, they are created, and remain, equal under the law. This has nothing to do with abilities or attainments. And it also shoots a great big hole in your own contention that AZNT shareholders are "more equal" before the law than non-shareholders. no real financial analysts gives them any status Really? they can not 'belong' to an elite group like broker/dealer because they have not the qualifications & no knowledge in this area. no knowledge equates to no power. Doesn't the same apply to you, spidey? And for heaven's sake, since when are broker/dealers an "elite" group? All you have to do is take a series 7 and bingo!

To: Spider Valdez who wrote (18862)	2/9/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 26163

but she is not qualified to suggest financial advice. an 'intellectual' is one , like janice, who knows 19th century art but claims that knowledge merits her being able to give financial advice. And by the way, Spidey, I don't ever give "financial advice". YOU do, though. As a former PA and current pugilist, you're undoubtedly qualified.