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To: Ghassan I. Ghandour who wrote (2533)	4/2/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: Dennis Nicks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Ghassan, you are right. There is nothing positive in that article at all. Here's a link if anyone else wants to have a look. dailynews.yahoo.com We had better hear something from the company soon, at least some sort of explanation.. Dennis

To: Ghassan I. Ghandour who wrote (2533)	4/3/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

I hope your not serious about the CEO and CFO playing a multi-million dollar April Fool prank, can you imagine the lawsuits? As far as this not being based on the quarter's results, that's just positive spin on the part of the company because they don't know what the final result is going to be, especially now that the CFO just up an disappeared. I have a gut feeling that these guys dynamited the retail tool sales down to virtually nothing. That would explain the kernel-panic which prompted them to re-rename half the company and issue a press release in which Del announces a new discovery: that Borland used to have tens of millions of customers and that they may be able to tap into that. If you thought that was knowledge he should have had prior to being given the job offer, you're not alone. The only thing Del had going for him was connections with Oracle and such but he didn't take advantage of that. He obviously isn't very good at judging his own lack of ability and he made little or no effort to understand the market. I'm sure he was given sound advice from Ellison and others, but it probably went right over his head. He wanted to prove that he was capable of running a high-tech company like his buddies, hopefully that question has been settled.