Morse Share Discussion Threads

[maut too] 15/12/2004 09:20

Tomkins ... the news of the non exec was released today and much as you imagine I can control the news output - it is not true (in this instance) lol

[maut too] 15/12/2004 09:18

worth a look at the last trading statement


AGM statement and Q1 sales performance update
Embargoed for 7.00am, Tuesday 2 November 2004


Morse plc
AGM statement and Q1 sales performance update


Morse plc ("Morse"), the technology integrator, will hold its AGM at 10.00am today at which Richard Lapthorne, Chairman, will provide the following update on the Group's sales performance during the first quarter to 30 September 2004 and on current trading:

"We are continuing to change the shape of the business in line with our strategy as a technology integrator and to trade in line with management's expectations in a market environment which has not improved over the summer months, though it remains stable. The mobility solutions that we have been developing are starting to gain traction enhancing our strong market position in this developing sector.

Group sales for the quarter to 30 September 2004 were £92 million (2003: £73 million), with £5 million arising from the Diagonal acquisition that completed on 26 August 2004. This compares with sales of £107 million and £96 million for the June and March quarters respectively.

The UK business continues to lead the evolution of the Group, with the fullest services offering. In its key verticals of finance and telecommunications conditions have remained stable. In Continental Europe, Germany is making good progress following the successful integration of Techsol. Spain had a slow first quarter but has an increasing pipeline. France has seen stability in revenues and is making progress with its cost reduction plan.

The integration of Diagonal is proceeding according to and on track with our 100-day plan. We have identified and implemented the actions to achieve the £1.5 million cost savings that we indicated and continue to work within our planned timescales to identify further savings and where investment is required.

The acquisition of Diagonal accelerates the development of Morse's services offering and provides it with a leading UK-based SAP consultancy business, thus expanding the services portfolio further. As we anticipated, the Diagonal group's new business pipeline on acquisition was weak, however we are encouraged by the number of new early stage prospects the enlarged Group is identifying. The revised management structure of the combined Group continues to organise the Group along geographical lines, but now provides in-country focus by management consultancy, business consultancy and technology integration.

The Group's cash position, after the acquisition of Diagonal Plc remains strong with a net cash balance of approximately £38 million at 30 September 2004 (£75 million at 30 June 2003).

As we stated in our preliminary results announcement in September, the current financial year has started in line with our expectations and we anticipate business during this year to compare favourably against 2004."

Duncan McIntyre, Chief Executive
Gavin James, Finance Director

[tomkin] 15/12/2004 09:09

maut is going into overdrive spamming mode now - of course this is not a pump and dump... maut is inclined to the long term. Anything to keep the thread at the top. You know who alerted....

[maut too] 15/12/2004 09:07

CAS Morse : Appoints Whitehead non-exec
15-Dec-2004 09:03

Morse today announced the appointment
of Nigel Whitehead as non-executive
director with immediate effect.

ICV Edited News from Dow Jones
0903 GMT Dec 15 2004

[tomkin] 15/12/2004 09:05

very interesting maut

if it doesn't bounce, then 70p region looks very likely - the downtrend has yet to be broken and a target of 68p looks OK.

[maut too] 15/12/2004 09:05

two mm sells have knocked the two guys off the new bid - one assumes it was cazy who clearly had stock to move - interestingly despite having nms of just 25k they were prepared to take 50k which indicates they have or expect to have buyers at better than the 95p

[maut too] 15/12/2004 09:00

for anyone interested - the average daily share volumes are in the order of 452k - after a heavy sept of nearly a million a day October was quiet at 241K average with november @ 352K and december so far at 396K

[tomkin] 15/12/2004 08:55

maut - they are inclined towards the long term too...

lol

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:54

wins has also ticked up on the bid as one or two buys come in - only one guy on the offer at 97p but guess he has around 25k to go

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:46

This is not a trading share and my interest will be inclined towards the longer term but in the early days of a potential bounce - it is interesting to see how L2 performs and there is every chance for a 10/15% bounce and could be higher with the right sort of news/sales progress

KLWT have ticked up on the bid which might indicate a biggish buy in the system which will be shown later today - quite a tight spread just now

[tomkin] 15/12/2004 08:42

here comes the mautie spam.......


ROFLMAO!

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:41

Morse to Offer Tarantella Secure Global Desktop for BladeCenter To European Customers

New pre-packaged appliance helps customers overcome application and server management challenges


London, UK, November 2004 - Morse plc, the technology integrator, announced today that it will build and distribute Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Appliance for BladeCenter to customers in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. Secure Global Desktop Appliance for BladeCenter is a powerful solution comprised of Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition (EE) software and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 9, pre-configured by Morse on an Intel-based IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 and HS40. Featuring all the advantages of EE, including industry-leading security and heterogeneous application support, Secure Global Desktop for BladeCenter is a Linux-based, all in one, "plug and play" secure application access solution.

This solution will help enterprise customers to overcome desktop management challenges by enabling them to transfer all client applications from individual desktops onto a server centric IBM eServer solution. This will allow them to be centrally managed and provide users, whatever their location, with secure access to these applications, simply and easily through a web browser interface. Pre-configured and supported by Morse Professional Services, the solution will significantly reduce application workload on individual desktops, lower operational costs and streamline IT application management. This process will also provide organisations with the opportunity to significantly reduce desktop licensing costs.

The combination of Tarantella's secure application access technology with IBM's eServer solutions, supported by Morse's expertise in configuration and design, will offer customers a means of maximising system utilisation, while providing secure remote user access to business-critical information. Applications will sit in the BladeCenter where they can be centrally managed so any software updates or new applications can be easily and quickly deployed. The BladeCenter provides IT managers with a means of consolidating their existing server environments into a single centralised chassis for central and easy application maintenance, while minimising cost and complexity.

Frank Wilde, Tarantella's CEO commented, "Enterprise managers today are looking to drive down the cost of application management and also consolidate and integrate their existing IT infrastructures. A further challenge is to ensure that business users have 24/7 access to critical applications, wherever they're based. Secure Global Desktop Appliance for BladeCenter gives customers a pre-packaged appliance that will address all of these challenges while, pioneering a new business model for application management. The innovative technology from Tarantella, IBM and Novell and the implementation expertise of Morse, allows customers to buy a truly integrated and consolidated secure application access appliance for BladeCenter that is setting new market standards in terms of ease of installation, deployment and time to productivity."

Duncan McIntyre, Chief Executive, Morse plc, remarked, "This announcement is a natural extension of the outstanding relationship that Morse already enjoys with Tarantella and IBM. Customers today are looking to reduce the complexity of their IT infrastructure and move to a more consolidated and integrated business model that will reduce management headaches and lower operational costs. Tarantella's new product family delivers incredible operational savings as well as a truly tried and tested secure application access solution, which will help move customers towards a totally consolidated IT environment."

Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition (EE) is the only integrated application management and access solution to encompass an unprecedented range of server-based applications from Linux to Microsoft Windows, UNIX, IBM 32xx and iSeries (AS/400) systems while enabling an extensive array of client platforms. Secure Global Desktop EE's three-tiered design is engineered to support open standards such as Java technology, SSL, LDAP, SSH and X11. Optimised for the most rigorous security, scalability and network performance requirements, EE is the ideal solution for cost-effective legacy application migration as well as an indispensable tool for ensuring business continuance in disaster scenarios.

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:39

I am sure no one minds you or any or your aliases from expressing an opinion on the share/company but endless slagging/spamming for the sheer sake of it seems a little pointless. Yesterday you went onto around 12 threads to endlessly say you had filtered my posts

You have to accept some people will be more successful than you - deal with it - without recourse to spamming ... might help by putting the time and effort into research rather than spam :-))

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:27

IBM Bladecenter and Tarantella 2-for-1 offer



Until 31st December 2004 Morse is offering 2 Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition user licenses at a price equal to the price you paid for 1 Citrix user licence.

This offer will be attractive to Citrix users who wish to benefit from the key features that Tarantella has to offer and are looking to either upgrade their existing Citrix estate or are in the process of evaluating Citrix software.

Not only will this offer reduce your software licensing costs you will benefit from the fact that Tarantella requires less server hardware than Citrix and thus will also help lower your hardware costs.

[day_dreamer] 15/12/2004 08:18

If anybody has been spamming it is you maut too !

How many MOR threads have you started now ?

You cannot handle views that are not your own and your
dishonesty on this site over the years will always come
back to haunt you.

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[tomkin] 15/12/2004 08:18

I think everyone believes you maut - it's not as if you are a serial liar is it?

;-))

[maut too] 15/12/2004 08:17

as it happens it was the same broker friend who put me into the tads placing at 3p - I sold most of them between 20 and 27p ... nice one

[tomkin] 15/12/2004 08:13

you are a creep maut

"having been alerted to them by a broker friend " - was this the same one that told you tad was going to 50p or something stupid????

Like I say, the downtrend has NOT been broken...

And posting a line chart thinking it is a candlestick chart shows that you are hardly qualified to be handing out advice on a public board. ;-))

[day_dreamer] 15/12/2004 08:03

Maut too must be bang into this stock.

He is starting MORe and MORe threads on it for some
bizarre reason.....this is spamming !

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[tomkin] 15/12/2004 08:00

ROFLMAO@maut too the silly amateur peep!!!