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To: Dennis Nicks who wrote (2429)	3/21/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: David Miller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

>>Unleashing the VSGN ORB would be like going back to the old Borland<< I agree. People who see the acquisition of Visigenic as a mistake puzzle me - what alternatives existed at that time, given the direction the company had stated it would take? >>How much would the enterprise business fetch on the market, ie how much would IBM pay for it?<< Inprise's enterprise business is an amalgam of a number of technologies, which together form a business proposition. Taken out of this context, it doesn't have a market value as such, only a "value in the eye of the beholder". I find it difficult to work out what value IBM would place on it, since they have an existing strategy of their own in which they are investing. >>Is it still worth the $100 mil they paid about a year ago?<< The acquisition of Visibroker was part of a process, not a discrete event, able to be reversed at a future time. Taking out such a central piece of the strategy would be so pointless as to make such a valuation meaningless. It's like asking what a heart transplant is worth. To the donor.