My apologies if I came off glib - my point was more that none of us should
let occasional bad news sway us from our respective course. News similar to
that which you referenced is a fact of life in this post-bubble era. While
we should remain vigilant, it's important to remember that the irrational
exuberance, in many cases (esp. within the popular media), has been replaced
by irrational cynicism.
-rwr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Darryl Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: Entrust Tech. in trouble?
> Thank you Darryl. I (and I'm sure others on the list too) appreciate your
> response. It's what I wanted to hear, and is far more informational than
> rwr's "it's a dot-com thing."
>
> -Russ
>
>
> At 10:10 AM 6/6/2001, Darryl Green wrote:
> >Needless to say I was on the phone post-haste when I heard the
announcement.
> >Their lay-offs were focussed on Sales and Marketing redundancy that their
> >business-unit structure resulted in (I surmise, and this is only personal
> >supposition, that at one time they may have been thinking about a
spin-off
> >of their Internet business -- if so, those days are gone)
> >
> >Nonethe less, I can safely say that:
> >
> >This will have no effect on the operation of or customer support levels
for
> >our certificates (there were no operational lay-offs of which I am
aware).
> >It is business as usual as far as Tucows certs are concerned.
> >
> >Happy Selling
> >Darryl Green
> >Product Manager Web Certificates
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Tucows Inc.
> >Phone:(416)538-5461
> >Fax: (416)-531-5584
> >96 Mowat Avenue
> >Toronto Ontario
> >M6K 3M1
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Goodwin
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:22 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Entrust Tech. in trouble?
> > >
> > >
> > > Entrust is OpenSRS/Tucows partner for providing digital certificates,
so
> > > here's a little news that I haven't seen on the discuss list yet.
> > >
> > > There was this announcement from Entrust last week:
> > > TUCOWS.com partners with Go2Net's Authorize.net and Entrust
> > > Technologies to
> > > offer complete e-merchant solutions
> > > http://www.entrust.com/news/files/05_30_00_298.htm
> > >
> > > And then yesterday there's the positively-spun announcement that
> > > Entrust is
> > > laying off 400 workers, restructuring, closing some of its offices,
and
> > > taking a $400 million charge:
> > > http://www.entrust.com/news/files/06_04_01_748.htm
> > >
> > >
> > > Doesn't make me feel good about offering my clients Entrust
certificates.
> > >
>
