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DBC is of course in the process of having 60% of their common stock taken
over by Pearson, plc, subject to shareholder approval. Pearson, plc, is a
U.K. company. In return DBC would be merging with Interactive Data, an
institutional provider of market data and other services. Interactive
Data's customers include almost all the large brokerages and financial
institutions in the U.S.
I looked at DBC's prospectus for the proposed transaction, and DBC lost
money on their "market information" (data) products in 1999. That's
compared to a profit on "market information" in 1998, with 1997 considerably
more profitable than 1998. Added to the loses DBC's "market information"
business, which includes BMI and e-Signal and an institutional service, has
only a slight growth in revenues. In other words, for DBC "market
information" doesn't seem a good business to be in any more.
The main question is whether DBC will be selling off their unprofitable
"market information" business, or will DBC try to raise prices substantially
and turn their broadcast business into a high-speed service comparable to
S&P Comstock. However DBC would already have such a service in
Interactive Data.
In any case I doubt DBC will do anything about the problems in their
broadcast service until after the proposed merger, since Pearson, plc, will
likely be making those decisions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "hans esser" <he96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List, Omega" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 7:20 AM
Subject: RE: Comstock and quote.com
> > "I don't buy for a second the
> > BMI claim that they can't add bandwidth."
> >
> > I'll go even one further: I bet they slow it intentionally.
>
> NOT BAD CALL !
>
> DBC gone worse on SAT here and tell you they cant do anything about it as
> they channel their resources into Esignal : "GO THERE " <g>
>
> Wouldnt wonder that BMI has the same attitude
>
> rgds hans
>
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> What ever
> > happened to BMI's brand new 56K V-Line before DBC bought BMI out? I
> > remember having to back down to 36.6 after DBC got their grimy ass hands
> > on it.
> >
> > Riddle me that DBC, you fn crooks!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dennis Holverstott [mailto:dennis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 1:18 PM
> > > To: Omega List
> > > Subject: Comstock and quote.com
> > >
> > >
> > > Riddle me this. :-) Everyone seems to praise Comstock as a "premium"
> > > data feed and everyone ridicules quote.com's obviously crummy EOD
data.
> > > Problem is quote.com gets their crummy data from Comstock. So is
> > > Comstock really any good or does everyone just assume it is because it
> > > costs so much? Will tradestation.com have the same crummy EOD data as
> > > quote.com?
> > >
> > > ps - sorry TJ but I'll take realtime quote.com tick data for the
e-mini
> > > over BMI any day. You must have lousy internet service to be so
critical
> > > of quote.com. It ain't perfect but, on balance, it's a better tick
feed
> > > than BMI.
> > >
> > > pps - I'll second the hope that DTN doesn't go away. They are a Bridge
> > > feed which seems to have better EOD data than Comstock and they have
> > > enough bandwidth to handle all the ticks. I don't buy for a second the
> > > BMI claim that they can't add bandwidth. They just want to force
> > > everybody to use E-Signal cuz it's cheaper and easier for them.
Problem
> > > is there are better internet feeds than E-Signal so it's lose/lose for
> > > DBC and BMI.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dennis
> > >
> >
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