Ashton Technology Group (fka ASTN)

[sarals]

Excellent points, Bird of Prey!

"Why bother to try and remain listed if you are going..."

Agree. And I don't have the exactly quote, but I do believe that Fred has said that he's not concerned about delisting. It's not a great thing to have happen, but I certainly prefer the company focusing on getting the product ramped up and profits coming in than worry about that issue.

What say you Sara? Do complicated software projects ever have unforseen obstacles that slow their development?

It's almost something you can plan for! and especially with the case of a brand new product being introduced. Part of what I think we may be seeing with eVWAP is called iterative development. Booch (one of the three Amigos) talks about this process in his UML Distilled book:

"The construction phase consists of many interations, in which each interation builds production-quality software, tested and integrated, that satisfies a subset of the requirements of the product. The delivery many be external, to early users, or purely internal."

back to another one of your points...

"Just because someone got sued for wrong doing doesn't mean the people that hired him did anything wrong."

Totally agree with your take on that issue BoP. There is a good article "Betrayal on Wall Street" that discusses how the small companies were most often the victims.

Have a great saturday!
Sara