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Non-Tech : Ashton Technology (ASTN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stuart T who wrote (318)	4/25/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4443

No argument with that,our argument has only been with those that make the GA IPO being the be all and end all of why they are investing in ASTN at this time--that statement by ASTN makes me believe that it is very,very likely they intend to IPO GA---but S-1s can be quite time consuming to get done and it could possibly be months yet before the S-1 is announced--the key to ASTN at this moment is what we hope to materialize in JULY with the launching of VWAP--and also the several other irons in fire--my statement on Yahoo! was to say that GA should be seen as the marvelous icing on the cake,but the cake is ASTN IF these years of development with their trading technologies finally come of age and start to be a money maker.Good Luck,Max

To: Stuart T who wrote (318)	4/25/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4443

It's common to tease investors with IPO talk most people who have purchased private placement shares will tell you they are often told the company will ultimately IPO so they can really cash in on their investment. exploring an IPO is simply gomez.com's way of keeping the recent round of investors content. I am in several private placement deals that do two or three rounds of private placement fund raising before they are viable enough to actually press for an IPO. I don't expect ASTN to IPO gomez any time soon since they don't have to cash in on that partnership while so many customers lining up to their new service this summer. We know from the past that ASTN had to sell one of their cash flow properties in order to survive. I doubt they will need to do it again, this close to it's service launch. Anyone who touts the gomez property as a reason to buy ASTN is missing the point. I just got off of playing TRAC and they also were to benefit from IPO'ing edgar.com, but that did not prevent me from taking profits when the real reason I bought that stock came to fruitian, when they opened their discount brokerage. I am playing this stock at least thru the opening of Ashtons new trading system. Then I'll hold half thru year end to see if I profit even more from projected growth rate. Is the gomez.com IPO anywhere in my event calander for playing ASTN? Not at all...