Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Microcap & Penny Stocks : GTCI - get in before the news hits -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DARPA who wrote (866)	2/24/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: ztect	Respond to of 1541

Darpa.......First why didn't you provide a link or the full context of the article? I previously posted a similar article on the same topic from MartketWatch.com cbs.marketwatch.com "...Despite the relatively small damages ordered by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court, the ruling may [or may not]set a precedent for other software piracy cases in China, where most computers operate on pirated software...." This article is also very interesting... marketwatch.newsalert.com PR Newswire - February 16, 1999 16:05 "...The leading trade association for the software and information industry estimated that more than 90 percent of all business software used in Bulgaria, China, Indonesia, Russia and Vietnam is pirated...." Now per your thesis all this pirated software is in need of a fix... But your thesis begs two questions. 1). With the penchant and prevalency of piracy in China, what prevents Chinese people and businesses from pirating GTCI's y2k software? One answer to this is nothing, and the tendency to pirate software undermines both the potential market and revenues from that market. 2) Also do GTCi's y2k products address software as well as hardware y2k bugs? According to Yang's review, GCTI y2k fix is a HARDWARE fix ONLY...not a software fix, and requires the computer to be rebooted up to eight time, which according to many people is a competitive disadvantage versus other y2k products that are just hardware fixes. Message 7575614 "...It's documentation clearly states that it does not check software (applications) for Y2k problem...." Thus the market for GCTI's hardware fix y2k products has to be measured by non-compliant y2k computers....not non-compliant software. Please review these links for an assessment of this non-y2k market size....in China it is small and no where near the claimed 10 mill computer total per WSRG's tout. Message 7794224 Message 7805613 Therefore, based on your points, I have to disagree with you regarding WSRG's claims. I also have to ask you whether or not you know what GTCI y2k's products are since you are mistaken about GTCI's products capabilities. Sincerely, ztect