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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="064285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Know Your Techs</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Know Your Techs"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TechTopics"><U>TechTopics</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TechKnow"><U>TechKnow</U></A>   |   <B>About Us</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="063d2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>About Us</I></div> <div> <I>The Author</I></div> <div> This service is provided by Martin Stone of <A HREF="http://www.formant.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.formant.co.uk"><U>Formant Ltd</U></A> a Finance and Insurance Systems Consultancy</div> <div> Martin has many years of experience as a consultant in finance and insurance systems.  He has an interest in all things technical, their worth to businesses and his pocket.</div> <div> <I>Background</I></div> <div> The original concept for this site came about in the tech boom era prior to the big bust in 2000.  A lot of individual investors were making a lot of money just by following a stock that was on the up.  They knew little of the financial fundamentals of the company and probably even less about the products or service the company provided.</div> <div> There were a lot of sites offering advice on which technology stocks to buy mainly based on their financial performance with a passing glance at the significance or otherwise of their products or services in the marketplace.</div> <div> I am very much of the Peter Lynch's philosophy of 'Invest in what you know'.  Peter's book Beating the Street was a major influence on my own style of investment.  Hence I set out to provide the information for the individual investor to know what he was investing in.</div> <div> That aim is still there  but the picture has widened to cover technical topics that concern my business and the people I work with.  In my line of business I work in partnerships with a number individuals who are experts in their own field.  This leads to much discussion on technical issues relating to the services we are providing to our customers.  I have now started to put the subjects of those discussions into a number of TechTopics which will appear on these pages in due course.  </div> <div> <I>Contact Us</I></div> <div> If you wish to obtain further information, provide material that could be presented on this site or simply want to comment please complete the following form:</div> <div>  <form action="http://csbmail.globalscape.com/cgi-bin/csbmail/csbmail.pl" method="POST" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_SortOrder" value="Name,Email,Comments"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_FormIndex" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_OKMessage" value="Thank you for your contacting us."><input type="hidden" name="tlx_SendMode" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_Subject" value="A comment form was submitted"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_EmailTo" value="martin.stone@formant.co.uk"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="left">Name:<br> <input type="text" name="Name" size="30" maxlength="100"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">Email:<br> <input type="text" name="Email" size="30" maxlength="100"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">Comments:<br> <textarea name="Comments" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><input type="reset"> <input type="submit" value="Send" name="tlx_send"></td> </tr> </table> </form>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>