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Technology Stocks : OBJECT DESIGN Inc.: Bargain of the year!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sea Otter who wrote (2791)	3/14/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

According to your profile you are 29 or so and talk a lot about Immunogen and General Magic. I didn't bother looking at what you had to say, but there isn't much to say about these two horrible operations. GMGC is a reincarnation of AAPL's hippie cult and IMGN is a worthless bust based on biotechnological alchemy. It will be extremely hard for these companies to survive. That's true of your company too, whatever it is. I know because Silicon Valley is headed for an unprecedented bust. I have no crystal ball. I just keep looking at INTC's chart. Yeegads! How could INTC's profitability slow in this environment? AMD's competition? DELL's slowing sales? Saturation of the PC market? Fortunately niche markets aren't effected by big company slow downs, are they? The only possible answer is the stock market is wrong. You claim ODIS is a screaming buy. Who knows, you can't underestimate how desperate someone like CA might be getting. You can doubt why anyone would want to invest in the sine qua non of dead money. The market has been seriously dismembering ODIS since the terrific and only possible bullish news of Goldman's quiet disappearance hit. That's interesting in its own right. The situation was so bad that Goldman had to get rid of himself since none of the other weaklings associated with this dead company had the guts to save even their own interests. Some BOD. We know that the market is wrong about knocking ORCL and we know that even if the market is right about slowing revenues at ORCL, that won't effect a niche company like ODIS. ODIS has a Linux strategy to fend off analyst's doubts, don't they? So we know that the market is wrong about INTC, ORCL, and ODIS, but we only know the latter because you claim it. That's not what every trade data is showing. It's showing liquidation. The only thing that keeps the stock from dropping to 4 is market sentiment and that may change. Now as far as your comments about "low echelon techie job" go, they remind me of a drowning person looking for a life preserver. You bought ODIS and now you're worried. You ought to be. I hope it rises so you can have the chance to get out of this dog and preserve the monies that you will need to support yourself. You seem to disregard the critical nature of the low echelon jobs at your operation. This is part of the hubris that has come from Silicon Valley's overblown success. Bear markets knock hell out of such attitudes and often relegate the perpetrators to the position they denigrated. So instead of idly casting aspersions take some advice from a pro money manager: if you don't want to eat crow in the conglomerate employment line, don't throw away the money so beneficently given to you by the mad dash into technology by the mad dash out of technology.

To: Sea Otter who wrote (2791)	3/15/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

Integral Access Chooses Object Design's ObjectStore for Network Management Platform CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--Integral Access, Inc., a leading developer of 21st century access networks, today announced that it has partnered with Object Design, Inc. (NASDAQ:ODIS - news), the leading provider of object-oriented data management solutions. As a result of this strategic relationship, Integral Access will incorporate Object Design's ObjectStore into its network management platform to help carriers manage end user connection information. Integral Access, Inc. provides packet-based access network solution for new and emerging carriers which allows them to provision up to 10 Mbit/s of fully-flexible access bandwidth for integrated voice and data services to businesses and homes using existing copper loop and leased facilities. The Integral Access packet access network will include Object Design's ObjectStore object database management system as the heart of its network management system, providing carriers with complete customer connection information. ObjectStore stores up-to-date images of all relevant information related to the end customer's circuits, service, and service-level agreements. ''As we enter the next century, competitive carriers must be able to deploy a broad array of voice and data services to a more demanding customer set. Achieving this goal requires cost-effective and scalable solutions that meet the needs of business and residential customers, and guarantee a high level of customer satisfaction,'' said David Gunning, Integral Access' vice president of marketing. ''It's not just about transporting bits. It's about exciting customers with levels of service unparalleled in this industry. In keeping with our commitment to provide the highest level of service and support for our customers building large, integrated voice and data networks, we chose the ObjectStore database management system for its superior performance and scalability, as well as the stability, market leadership and global service Object Design, Inc. provides.'' *About Integral Access* Integral Access, Inc. integralaccess.com provides the carrier access network of the 21st Century - from customer premise to network core - that allows competitive carriers to economically enter new markets, provide broad-based services to end-user customers and maximize revenue opportunities. Integral Access provides new and emerging carriers with a packet-based, low-cost and flexible network from which to deliver up to 10 Mbit/s of fully-flexible bandwidth for integrated services to businesses or even homes using existing copper loop and leased facilities. This new approach to the access network enables service providers to offer premium profit data services as well as traditional voice. Integral Access, Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, was founded in 1996 by a prestigious and experienced team of communications engineers and executives who believe that the existing infrastructure can be utilized in a cost-effective way to provide the foundation for the access network of the next century.