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Omega Research was a niche market player in the
software industry. That is well-known in the
field of software development as a niche house,
which should never go public - why? they would
never fulfill the want of the public investor
to grow grow grow and stock prices rise rise rise.
If they try to make the stock price rise, then
the company will no longer be the same and must
change direction of the company to survive.
After OR turns public, it can no longer function
correctly and forced most of its remaining talent
to leave the company. Remember, great programs do
not come from a team of average programmers, you
need star programmers to creat great software.
Thus, no matter how much OR worth by its stock
price that no longer mean anything.
The original star programmers are no longer there
which defines what a product driven company
worth.
e.g. SGI (Silicon Graphics)
Its ex-employees who designed many part in the
graphic super computers - are now founders of
voodoo, etc. Check the SGI stock price ...
see what I mean?
-Lawrence
--- Don Roos <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How many shares of omega are outstanding? What
> would it take to buy it out?
> Do they have a high debt level garnered from their
> recently being lost in
> the depths of Mirkwood that would dissuade a buyout?
> The stock is so cheap,
> one would think the users could buy out the company
> if there were someone
> that had the savvy and expertise to get the
> operation going again on what
> they have done best over the past 10 yrs. You
> interested, Bob?
>
> Don
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Fulks" <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "DH" <catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Some general questions
>
>
> At 11:20 AM -0800 3/25/01, DH wrote:
>
> > > OK, so Omega is moving on with its new business
> model,
> >
> >Yeah, they are going into the brokerage business
> just as Schwab is
> >laying off thousands of employees. Good call
> (again) Bill and Ralph. :-)
>
> And they would much rather have thousands of well
> funded competitors
> in the brokerage business than have a virtual
> monopoly in the
> TradeStation business.
>
> This will make a good business-school case
> someday...
>
>
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Lawrence Chan http://www.tickquest.com
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