Amteus Share Discussion Threads

[chopsy] 10/1/2008 11:55

I could give asx:was, asx:ava, but I don't want to be completely biased in xtr's favour. I want to attract other ideas. Don't any of you buy aus stocks? I know you buy Canadian.

[corrientes] 01/1/2008 12:08

Thanks chopsy.

[chopsy] 01/1/2008 11:33

I'll keep an eye on it. Paste the charts here and I'll put them in the header.

[corrientes] 01/1/2008 11:29

HLX should come good in 2008.Real iron ore,gold and uranium prospects, not moose pastures. The company's been around a long time and has good backers.Looks after its shareholders.

[chopsy] 01/1/2008 10:21

OK, sorry for hijacking this thread of mine, this is now a far east/aus watchlist. If there is anything you want adding, don't hesitiate to ask. Noble is recovering well, and I have high hopes for some swing trading here. MEO is an old friend, always worth keeping an eye on. Santos will come good in a big way, in due course. IHMO, DYOR.

[mikey_b] 13/12/2007 08:07

mikey_b - 14 Sep'07 - 08:02 - 75 of 90 edit

IM product, secure etc exists - e.g. MSN Messenger, corporate version - 100% inside the corporate firewall. I am not a MS fan by the way, in fact the opposite.

Skype was down for two days due to simultaneuos upgrade by millions of bloody XP users but, if your business is so fragile that it needs to rely on IM then you have problems.

I still think the product is smoke and mirrors chasing a long departed market

[davidosh] 12/12/2007 18:40

The share price has halved in the last month.....not a good sign with a new chief exec and FD just appointed.

Any thoughts anyone ?

[davidosh] 03/12/2007 01:14

Anyone know when the final results to 30th September are due btw ?

Surely they are not going to stretch it out until March again !!

Incidentally just found some info on Chris Holt MBE....not the sort of guy you would expect to see doing a 9-5 type job running a publicly listed company ....How long before he does not return to his desk on a Monday morning because he missed the last canoe up the Amazon ??

[davidosh] 03/12/2007 00:46

Only just spotted the new chief exec announcement back in October but clearly nobody else interested as no posts here...




Rather a strange move to join Amteus ...Why did he leave the Army at such a young age if his career was going so well ??

[davidosh] 12/10/2007 02:31

Houseprices...Do you have a reason for those confident thoughts ?

[houseprices] 12/10/2007 00:27

And back up to 50p very soon, 4 weeks

[mikey_b] 01/10/2007 09:57

one minor downward correction to come...about 30p worth

[mikey_b] 24/9/2007 14:43

Seems to have corrected slightly on a good day for the markets.

[mikey_b] 19/9/2007 16:43

and it is one of the few stocks to stay still today......

[mikey_b] 17/9/2007 09:34

Hi chicken, no it's not the point really. External connectivity is optional at the admin level so it can be withdrawn at a stroke or not even installed. Even if it is permitted the link between internal and external contacts is not permitted maintaining security and locked down network as you want. I don't know the nuts and bolts of corporate MSN but I would expect granularity to user level (permit the school staff to connect to external MSN but not the kiddies). When it boots up MSN goes through 3 connections if allowed - Exchange (internal), .Net (external messenger) and a SIP based account.

So at present I see a good product but a late entrant and not as versatile as existing products which is why I don't see it as an investment right now.

[the chicken] 17/9/2007 09:06

Mikey, but isn't that precisely the point? MSN offers links to external IM, the whole point of IMJack is that it doesn't, thereby ensuring that staff aren't able to misuse IM to the same extent i.e chatting to randoms over the web, flirting with girlfriends etc etc? Its all about controlling access and this is what the Amteus system is all about - maintaining a locked down IM network. I believe that they are aiming it towards the schools market in a fairly major way also.

[davidosh] 16/9/2007 13:18

Thanks TC

How large is your IM network and any idea of the costings overall compared to a competitor ?

The sales here so far have been miniscule and of course resellers will be taking a big slice.....just trying to understand how many sales are needed to break even and wondering if AUS has a large enough marketplace to ever get there...

[mikey_b] 16/9/2007 10:00

the market increases but I mean they offer nothing new, the competition is entrenched. MSN is secure etc etc AND offers a link to external IM contacts as well.

Skype voice business model ensures the voice quality depends upon 3rd party connections (ie another skype user online) so if you are lucky enough to be routed through angola you may get poor quality - luck of the draw. If you base IM comms on internal top quality network of course I expect it would be good.

I have to go but happy to continue this later. I would like to see the product succeed but I can't see how.

[the chicken] 15/9/2007 21:22

Yes i'm a user via a reseller based sale, I use it every day ( since May this year) and its solid. I'd go as far as to say that the audio quality is considerably superior to Skype (which I also use). Also, when I have had a problem the help team have been pretty responsive and helpful.

Going back to Mikey-b's comments above, isnt the MSN product based around Live Communicator server and considerably more expensive per user than the IMJack proposition? I don't see how in an increasingly digital age with telecommuters/ dispersed workers that a secure IM and presence management system is a long departed market? I'd say its pretty much in its infancy and gaining commercial traction

[davidosh] 14/9/2007 17:03

TC,

Can you tell us more about how you came across IMJack ? Was the selling team direct or via a reseller ?? Have you recently used it or one of the first purchasers 18 months back....and what is the support from company like ??

Thank you for advising us that it works at least

[mikey_b] 14/9/2007 09:02

IM product, secure etc exists - e.g. MSN Messenger, corporate version - 100% inside the corporate firewall. I am not a MS fan by the way, in fact the opposite.

Skype was down for two days due to simultaneuos upgrade by millions of bloody XP users but, if your business is so fragile that it needs to rely on IM then you have problems.

I still think the product is smoke and mirrors chasing a long departed market