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Hey Bruce, looks like your response got bombed. So perhaps you can resend those three reasons why a company would invest in Glassware.
Thanks
Bruce, perhaps now that you are an expert in virtualization and container technologies, you can explain the technical and businesses advantages that Glassware 2.0 offers over the competition.
Let me make this easy: provide three (3) reasons that a company would need Glassware, and why they would invest in this tech.
Just three. Here's the catch: you cannot repeat any Sphere market g BS but have to use real client references and business cases.
I will wager you cannot do it.
It's available as "open source" is code for "we need help to code this solution" and "we can't sell it so we will give it away".
Makes it hard to comprehend the statement to investors from Peter Tassiopoulos in Feb 4, 2014 "we are tired of development, now is the time to sell, sell, sell".
Did any investor or potential investor assume that meant anything other than "the product is ready to go to market"?
Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, the company has zero Glassware product sales, zero Glassware references, and is relasingit as open source to run on VMware's platform.
The same platform that senior executives claimed Glassware would make irrelevant.
Ironic that the man that ran this into the ground can't be fired because he ran it into the ground in the first place.
That assumes of course a viable operating company was the objective in the first place.
Can always count on someone swallowing the hook, line and sinker.
Theres an old saying. If you go to a poker game and don't know who the mark is, it's you.
Wondering if this is as good an investment opportunity as ANY? Thanks for the advice
I have spoken to many investors that lost their homes, their life savings and in one case their marriage because they believed the hype spread by the promoters of this company. Seeing decent, honest people duped by clowns like the primate is an affront to decency and morality.
For some at least.
Mensplus, any decisions that you made were entirely to you. All I did was ask basic questions about the company and particularly the technology that any credible tech company could answer and openly demonstrate. I spoke with Peter Bookman in early 2014. I asked on this forum, on Twitter and I spoke with members of the Sphere engineering services team directly. I never received any answers to my questions.
I will remind you that Ken Hess of ZDNet with 25 million readers asked for a demo. He was promised access to the system three times over a year. He's still waiting.
Perhaps you don't quite understand the difference. See, what they have done to routinely for two years is borrow, borrow, borrow to keep the doors open. All the while they have diluted retail shareholders into oblivion.
So, hey, why don't you load up and buy more. I'm sure Tassiopoulos and company will thank you. You might even get a Christmas card from Barbados.
A sure fire winner!!!
"So what?" This is what you said earlier:
Do you ever have any actual contemporary point? Yes, as matter of fact,I do.. Same management. Same products. Only now a further three years behind the competition. That, my friend, is contemporary. No, tell me why you think a minor pop in share price changes any of the fundamentals of this company.
So, he was wrong in 2015, I'm sure you were right about everything throughout that year, right? As a matter of fact, when it comes to Sphere and Glassware, my track record is as close to 100% as you can get.
It's almost comical how unhinged you've become about ANY not having already gone bankrupt, despite all your bluster. I have never said they would go bankrupt. And you seem to be ignoring the facts like most hopefuls on this board did, and still do, for the last three years. Now that my friend is what I call unhinged.
I doubt you can find statement that I have made saying the company will go bankrupt. I suggest you may have me confused with someone else.
What I have said consistently and without hesitation is that Glassware cannot deliver Apple apps, or IBM mainframe apps, or Linux apps, or AIX apps for a host of technical and legal reasons. And that the claims about delivering VMware and Citrix killing performance, economies of scale and competitive advantage are the figments of someone's hyperventilated imagination.
I have said that all of the claims for the product were unproven. How may times has the company said, "oh, that's in a future release" or "of course it takes more than six clicks" or "we haven't read the Apple EULA so don't really know" or something equally ludicrous?
I also said that if it was proven to deliver on all of its claims I would gladly and enthusiastically invest.
Still waiting......
From 10/04/15:
I have never felt more confident regarding this investment than I do right now. Many of our most knowledgeable longs share this opinion. We don't have time to banter back and forth on a message board, but that relatively diminished activity should not be misinterpreted as a loss in faith of the bull investment thesis... while we enjoyed the 67 cent rise on 10/02... the closing pps of 2.72 continues to grossly undervalue S3D... better days lie ahead... Friday was merely a taste of that... jmo... glta...
- macnqueso
Bruce, you are right. The share price has gone up. Now, can you tell me why? Was it due to actual company execution, an increase in sales, new technology, proven customer references, improved operating results?
I think not. The run up in share price through 2013-14 it was due to unproven hype and market manipulation. If you are playing a day trading game then you might win with ANY. But let's be frank, you are on the outside looking in, and as with a casino, the house always wins. And you are not the house.
Bruce, let me ask you to offer any reason why you think Glassware and Sphere will become successful.
I agree the past is not the future. The company said this at Cantech in Toronto in early 2014:
* Best performing stock on Canadian markets for 2013 +785%
That was based on the promise of Glassware. How's that going today? How has the company performed since?
Sadly, for investors, the management team is one and the same (except for all of the high profile departures in mid-management roles). There are two constants with Sphere. One has a 20 year history of failed "stock promotions", and the other has delivered approximately 8 years of consecutive quarterly losses and huge guidance misses?
$11 to 15 cents.
And you are talking up a momentary pop of 7% after a 25:1 reverse split.
Well, I'm sure that small IT shop in London will turn the revenue numbers around quickly
Yeah, that's a press release that you expect to see from a company that claims it has game changing technology that will disrupt the entire IT industry, tear down the Apple pay wall, and is the only way to extend the life of WinXP and ATMs and to migrate mainframe data to the cloud.
The laughs just keep coming
C'mon, if you make an accusation at least have the smarts and cojones to back it up.
That was not the promise that they made for Glassware. Not even close
By the way, delivering data via the cloud to any device today is the most basic of table stakes.
PS It was basic table stakes in 2005
Perhaps I just don't like trying to be scammed, or threatened, or just have a thing about stock promoters ripping off naive people.
Thanks, but sadly, some innocent people with good but naive intentions lost hundreds of thousands (some lost over two million) because of the unfounded hype from the company, its execs and its primate scam promoter.
I wish I had been able to share the full wealth of information I had received in confidence from company insiders and partner staff.
Ha! "don't believe you" but again, as always, you cannot back up your claim with a single statement that has been subsequently proven false.
C'mon, surely you can show one false statement that I made to help drive ANY down. Just one.
Or do you just want to cry "fake news" while the share price drop from $11 to 15 cents?
Crack me up. Since Peter Tassiopoulos said "we are tired of development, now is the time to sell, sell, sell" in Feb 2014, ANY has signed "BIG" deals with Corel, Dell, Google, Atos, Ericsson, VMware, Microsoft, Novorad, Entisys, and others. Yet not a dollar in Glassware revenue. And now we are supposed to get excited about an 11 man IT services shop in the UK?
They had 30,000 students using Glassware at Chesterfield Count Public Schools (CCPS), and 10,000 students at New Caney. UPS was using it. Glassware was embedded in every Dell product, it was embedded in VMware Horizon, and all Microsoft sales reps were selling it.
And throughout that whole time, Sphere claimed it could deliver Windows, Apple, IBM mainframe, AIX, Android and Linux apps to any device in six clicks or less without the need for IT staff.
As before, show me that and I will invest in Sphere. Until that time, it's a fantasy.
That's amusing, and an old story line that was initially perpetuated by longs angry that their shares were dropping in value. And by the company desperate to maintain the myth that Glassware was disruptive and that ANY was the path to riches.
Ok, if I was a paid hack, then much of what I would say would prove to be inaccurate. I would say anything to drive the share price down, right.
So, why don't you do something very simple: find a single statement, just one, that proved to be wrong or inaccurate. Just one.
PS I could have simply requested that your post be deleted as a personal attack, but would prefer it stand and that you prove the allegation. If you cannot, then an apology is in order.
PS2 Never took a dime from anyone on this board or elsewhere for my views on the company, the management team, the technology or the investment potential. And I wish I had shorted ANY. Could have made a fortune.
Are you suggesting I'm wrong? Ha Ha Ha
I am no stock market expert so appreciate the advice of the members of this board. In your view, does ANY meet the criteria for a pump and dump scheme as defined by the SEC?
https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answerspumpdumphtm.html
Too funny! Four years after announcing that Glassware is the greatest thing since sliced bread, Sphere 3D signs a ten man IT shop in the UK to sell it.
What happened to Entisys? Or Novorad? Or for that matter, Dell, VMware, Microsoft, Atos, Ericsson, Google.
Strut, I think you are being unfair. The BIG turnaround is just around the corner.
How can anyone that is of sound mind believe that this company will become a winner?
I wonder when we can expect the next big HTFBS article promoting the company, or was that a purely pay for play scenario?
Glassware...... Exosphere. Just add it to the list of fantasy business partners and clients.
This is the most telling comment on the company yet.
Funniest statement I have heard this week: "ANY is a very solid company"
And yes it has technology....but it seems to be technology no one wants to buy.
Glassware revenue?????
If only Microsoft would tell Sphere what they had sold.....
Who cares about balance sheet and financials when you have the hottest tech in the industry?
And they would have gone belly up if not for last minute finance deals that padded management's pockets at the expense of retail shareholders.
Oh, c'mon man. Hugo has been calling this what it is for three years. Please look at the ANY share price over that time, and you will see he has been spot on.
Buddy, we didn't do a thing. Just ket nature take its course. If you think we impacted the share price or the business, please identify a single thing, yes just one thing, that we said that did not come true.
Or conversely, identify a single thing that management said that did come true. :)
Finally on the way to $16/60/600!!!!
Crypto currencies??? What are you talking about??
Is this the next stage of the pump?
Says who? Third tier entry level storage and tape. Guess what replaces that at a fraction of the cost? Cloud storage. Have you herd of Amazon AWS and Azure?