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Technology Stocks : RATIONAL SOFTWARE- BUY OR HOLD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Asymmetric who wrote (2925)	6/2/1999 8:28:00 AM
From: Hans-Erik Eriksson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3115

Hi Peter, I believe the worries that the Suite sales would peak immediately when launched is unwarranted. Even if there are attractive upgrade pricing, it will not lead to a downturn in revenue - it will lead to customers using more and different Rational products than before - which in turn will lead to higher revenue in the end. From where I'm looking (Scandinavia) Rational has started to create partnership deals with many consulting and education companies to satisfy the demand for services around their products (and of course also to make sure that these consulting companies recommend their products to the end customer). Select Software, which at least in Europe were a large competitor to RATL not so long ago, went into liquidation yesterday - stock is worthless... Can't help feeling sorry for them, they had some really good products and talented people. I'm not being ironic here, I really hope for the sake of development that RATL doesn't become too alone on the scene... Best, /Hans-Erik