THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700



October 5, 1999

04 00069 61 99100501




Mr. David Buoncristiani, Esq.
dbuoncristiani@thelenreid.com
Thelen, Reid & Priest LLP
2 Embarcaderro Center, 21st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

Subject:   Com Metrics
Meeting on 991007

Dear Dave,

Thanks for your note this morning that an emergency meeting has come up which requires deferring our meeting on Thursday, to next week. I'll call on Monday to see how things look.

Speaking of emergencies, did you see NASA's space craft crashed on Mars costing $125M. Lockheed, who made the mistake, is "checking their contract." We can help people use "Concurrent Discovery" to check the contract before mistakes occur, so that emergencies are reduced.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY



Rod Welch
rowelch@ibm.net