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Conference nyoss1::market_investing

Title:	Market Investing

Moderator:	2155::michaud

Created:	Thu Jan 23 1992
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1060
Total number of notes:	10477

684.0. "Quarterdeck Office SYstems (QDEK)" by MSBCS::BROWN_L () Fri Feb 18 1994 12:11

    Does anybody follow Quarterdeck Office Systems (QDEK) closely?
    
    They fell from grace (14-->2) after Deskview bombed and DOS 5/6
    came out with a built in memory manager.  But QEMM cales are actually
    moving up (#2 retail package behind Windows) as folks seem to
    be running into limitations with EMM386, and there doesn't appear
    anything from Microsoft on the horizon.  On the other hand, QDEK
    appears to be a one pony show with QEMM, and there is more competition
    now (NETROOM, 386MAX).
    
    Does anyone know latest earnings/debt/health of the company; or wish
    to comment on turnaround possibilities?  The current 2 1/4 price and
    low trading volume could make for a nice upside percentage move on
    an earnings surpise.
    thanks, KB

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
684.1	got lucky on this one	MSBCS::BROWN_L		`Fri Feb 25 1994 10:48`	2
	It probably has more to with STAC than earnings, but I'm up over 30% since entering .0 a week ago.
684.2	Something's going on here...	MSBCS::BROWN_L		`Wed Mar 16 1994 11:13`	1
	If anybody else follows QDEK, could you please post any news?
684.3		MARVA2::BUCHMAN	UNIX refugee in a VMS world	`Wed Mar 16 1994 16:55`	7
	> It probably has more to with STAC than earnings, but I'm up over 30% since entering .0 a week ago. What is STAC? Stock Market ACtivity? 2� to 3� in under a month is a pretty good gain, percentage-wise. Jim
684.4		ZENDIA::FERGUSON	Red X	`Thu Mar 17 1994 09:14`	5
	re <<< Note 684.3 by MARVA2::BUCHMAN "UNIX refugee in a VMS world" >>> > What is STAC? Stock Market ACtivity? The makers of STACKER software for PCs?
684.5		TLE::FELDMAN	Opportunities are our Future	`Thu Mar 17 1994 11:01`	10
	STAC recently won a case with Microsoft (more or less). It is possible that this had positive effects on other companies that make system add-ons. The finding was that Microsoft infringed on STAC's patents, and had to make a big payment to STAC. They also found that STAC infringed on Microsoft's trade secrets (using undocumented system calls) and had to make a much smaller payment to Microsoft. Gary