To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (1113 ) 5/19/1999 8:03:00 PM From: mst2000 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4443
Auric - Thanks for having as your mission the awakening of those like me who you believe "live in denial", but no thanks. It would be one thing if you offered up meaningful facts and analysis. But you clearly are overstating the significance of the 144's; the company by definition has no revenue (it's development stage, you know) prior to today, so lack of sales means nothing except that we know that they will be generating revenue in a matter of weeks; they are anything BUT bureaucrats relying on academia -- for example, Fred Rittereiser was side by side with Bill Lupien (who you seem to think is some industry visionary, if I read your prior posts correctly) at the helm of Instinet when it was a $5 Million dollar company (and you were probably putting band-aids on boo-boo's you got playing little league) and took it to $150 Million (in 1975 dollars) when it was sold to Reuters, which qualifies him as entrepenaural in my book -- and ATG has plenty of cash and available capital with which to survive a lack of revenue before VTS starts printing $$$$. Your attitude towards ATG is reminiscent of IBM's attitude towards Bill Gates, or Xerox's attitude towards the individuals who invented the desktop PC - through arrogance and a sense that if one is small, one must necessarily be "less than zero", the two most significant technological advances of the last three decades of the 20th century literally walked out the front door of two of the largest companies in the world FOR NOTHING!!! And aren't they sorry they placed arrogant know-it-all-ism ahead of thoughtful review and consideration. Yeah - I guess I do live in denial -- after all, I have the audacity to mention ATG, Microsoft and the desktop computer in the same paragraph. Do me a favor though -- don't assume we ATG longs are asleep on this one - if you're right, we will know soon enough and if we're right, you will too. But tell me one thing -- do you wonder even a little why ATG's stock continues to rise on no news if this is all just a bunch of BS. Surely, in your vast followings of so-called Pump and Dump stocks, you have noticed that the half-life of a P & D price spike is usually a lot shorter than this one has been thus far . . . . . curious for your thoughts on that one. MST