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To: Rick who wrote (886)	5/14/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: MarkC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1188

I read a post on yahoo this morning about a possible take over of USWB by IBM. Have you seen or heard anything about this? Mark

To: Rick who wrote (886)	5/14/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Brett Behm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1188

Rick, you state: The reality is that a programmer that can be billed out for about $150,000 per year with even 20% margins brings in $30,000 in earnings. How much would you pay for a $30,000 stream of income ? Let's say you're not greedy and just want a 10% return on investment and you have $300,000 as your programmer worth. Right now the USWB market cap translates to around $1,000,000 per employee (and keep in mind some are admin and not billable). In today's market, I don't see why this is that terrible. 30K on 1 Mil is about 3%. This gives you a PE of 33 or a PS of 3. Out of all the companies to pick on for fundamentals, why choose USWB. How about AOL that a income stream of about $300 for every subscriber valued at 22k. Or Yahoo with a what a value of 30 Million for every employee. What are the companies with better ratios? I can name a few greats with worse - MSFT, CSCO, YHOO, AOL...