ANTs Software Inc. (fka ANTS)

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"But nothing has been proven yet"

"Proven" must contain varying degrees of certainty in the context of which you speak. Using the word "nothing" is simply wrong. Let's take a look at Ants.

Historically speaking, here are several excerpts from an article in InformationWeek

http://www.informationweek.com/software/information-management/ibm-to-migrate-sybase-customers-to-db2/225200014

"Don Haderle, who retired as an IBM Fellow in 2005, is a founding member of the ANTs technical advisory board and helped ANTs build its relationship with IBM. He is regarded as "the father of DB2," as the leader of the technical team that developed it in the 1980s."

"Kovak said Citigroup has 3,000 Sybase applications and Credit Suisse has 10,000. Both are candidates to convert some of them to DB2, he claimed."

Citi is referenced earlier in the article. The article goes on to mention Pep Boys and BJC HealthCare as users as well as:

"The Italian fashion e-retailer, Faith Industry, is another user, along with ABSA Bank in South Africa, IBM spokesmen said."

There are other users not mentioned in the article. For example the electric utility company in California. Frank said they are still using the product but Ants is receiving no revenue.

It's beyond dispute that the product, had it worked properly, was desired.

Jumping to today, we have a revamped product, done by an individual that clearly had the background for the task. Don Haderle has looked at the results and concluded that this was "the technically correct approach". And yes, we are talking to SAP and IBM. Putting that in the context of the companies background, you simply cannot dismiss it as "the tail wagging the dog". Comparing this to a typical penny stock is not only disingenuous, it's utterly absurd. And I haven't even mentioned the Doctors other ventures that he is folding into Ants.

By the way, at the bottom of the article cited above it talks about the irony involved with the South African Bank choosing the ACS because of IBM's close relationship with SAP. We all know what happened next with SAP and Sybase. Interesting.