This thread is for peeps like myself who want to track the performance of this share, whether good or bad and whether the company survives or not.

The aim is this thread is not to clutter it up with idle speculation as to whether GEM are involved with each tiny few thousand pounds worth of shares that get traded in the average deal size for this share as quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The spreads are currently very large, 1.25p, on a share priced in 4p region and I would suggest there are better short term trading plays out there in the universe of quoted companies. This share is also very high risk.

p.s - Feel free to chat about anything else on this thread as well.

p.p.s - I'm currently neutral this share, i.e I don't have a position.

p.p.p.s - The Lion, the Witch and the Candlestick maker (aka advfn crowd) may all cluter up this thread with banter if they so desire.

50 and 200 MA crossing

snappy
dont assume knowledege wrt other punters.what is the implication of your last post? no offence intended.

i received a book on charting for Christmas....i have rapidly come to the conclusion that charting is not for me. its like a lot of things in life.....I CAN SEE IT ONCE POINTED OUT

I think the exuberance over AppExpress is misplaced.

Firstly, there are a number of ways of shipping software and controlling its use over the Internet, many have been in use for a number of years. Licence servers, both local and remote, are commonplace.

Secondly, shipping over the Internet is not itself a panacea: there are many establishments that do not permit open Internet connection and to whom software can only be shipped on physical media. Also, not everybody is connected to the Internet all the time, even in this day and age.

It has always looked to me that the Microsoft deal was a firesale: a company with $60bn in the bank commits to no more than $100k, and that has to be earned by usage. This looks to me like Tadpole handed it to Microsoft on a plate with absolutely no up-front committment from Microsoft. So, are Microsoft really that interested in AppExpress?

As for the MCI deal, who knows, but I wouldn't get over-excited by that either. I've seen many a deal like that just fizzle out. Telcos are very prone to that.

super it was just an observation that was all.

Personally I think this company is highly overvalued even at the current 11p, however some punters just cannot fill their boots quickly enough it would seem.

I have no idea of the exact terms of the Stream deal (and for that matter neither does anybody else except Tadpole management and Stream owners) but it is just possible this deal could fall through or Stream may now wish to renegotiate the terms to be $25m of shares @ 11p strike price.

Whatever the contents of the supposed "briefing paper" that was circulated by Tad this week, it would seem that it did not receive a positive response from the institutions/larger private investors.

Great opportunity to BUY at nearly 90% discount.

Tadpole Technology (TAD) Add (unchanged)
Mkt cap: 54m Net cash: 0m Trading update Price/Target: 18p/20p
Microsoft adopts AppExpress technology
Investors have long believed that Microsoft would eventually adopt TADs
innovative peer-to-peer technology and today that contract has finally been
signed; an excellent endorsement of the product.
Microsoft will use Tadpoles AppExpress applications to stream trial
versions of consumer software products to potential new customers over the
Internet. However it must be pointed out that the initial value of the contract
is based upon customer usage of the software, up to an amount of just
$100,000. Nevertheless this is an impressive endorsement of the product. The
road to this deal was paved last November when the Endeavors division
which develops AppExpress achieved Gold Certified Partner status with
Microsoft.
AppExpress enables the rapid deployment of software to desktops while
providing strong licence management control, vital with the levels of piracy
now threatening Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). AppExpress has
proven successful as a trialware solution as well by allowing those ISVs to
run full-product try-before-buy campaigns that have the added advantage of
monitoring application usage and anti-piracy controls.
Microsoft joins another large US software supplier, Autodesk, as champions
of Tadpoles on-demand technology. For over a year, potential customers
have been able to log on to servers of Autodesk in the US and receive full
versions of AutoCAD 2005 trialware to their desktops, powered by
AppExpress on-demand delivery technology. Following this success, in
April this was extended to Autodesk subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa.
AppExpress is now showing itself to be a sound and repeatable model for
ISVs looking for a piracy-free, trackable solution of putting full product
software in the hands of prospects in the shortest time. It reduces evaluation
software costs by eliminating the process of burning and shipping trialware
CD-ROMs to customers. For example, Autodesk has estimated savings of up
to $10 per unit by cutting the physical medium out of its business process.
With two industry giants, Microsoft and Autodesk, now using it we expect
many other ISVs will follow suit and the chances of it become an industrystandard
method of trialware delivery are much increased. On that basis,
although we stress that these are yet early days for Endeavors, we believe
there is good potential in AppExpress and are maintaining our Add
recommendation.

Did I miss something, or is post #50 by Midazmidaz a re-post of #44 by Happy1 on 28 July?

I draw your attention to post #47 by myself.

"Did I miss something, or is post #50 by Midazmidaz a re-post of #44 by Happy1 on 28 July?"

No you didn't miss anything MM post #50 is identical to post #44.

90% discount now on offer :-)) these bulls will stop at nothing to promote this dreadful share.

HI Snap.
a year on nearly and still it exists, had to smile at the "director buying/selling" stunt over two days, seems that have at last got an MD with sense- he is selling .

GEM on a T trade?