Second Wave Petroleum Inc SCSZF

RE: wow they had what 2.5 million in a quarter

[vandenp]

Stustock, I'm not sure what the article you just posted points out with regard to 2.5 million in a quarter. All I can see is that in the 12 months of 2001 their were 2,166,209 price quotes requested. Am I missing something? Anyway, on another note, this is a pretty cool Travel Agent Magazine article on SolarNet. SCS Solars Computing Systems Inc. Head office: 789 West Pender Street, Suite 440, Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 1H2 Website: www.solars.com Contact: Greg Lytle Phone: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Reproduced from the March 11, 2002 Edition, Travel Agents Technology Section By Jennifer Michels Information Under the Sun With just a few key strokes, SolarNet connects agents with consolidators, operators and suppliers The best way to sell any product is to go directly to the source. If that product is a tour package or consolidator air fare, the source is the travel agent. And the way to get to agents is to put the information directly in front of them, for free, on the GDS screen. That’s the whole premise behind what technology solutions company SolarNet (www.solars.com) does. The Vancouver-based company is rapidly expanding by connecting consolidators, tour operators and other (many not well-known) suppliers with agents through all the major GDSs. For the agent, the information is only a few keystrokes away. “No retail agent wants to spend 10 minutes on hold for a call center,”says SolarNet President and CEO Andrew O’Leary. “And vendors want them to be doing bookings. For SolarNet, our objective is to provide that product information.” The company actually developed an Internet platform several years ago, but O’Leary says no retail agents came. “What we felt we needed to do, and the key to our success, is to be able to display stuff on the tools they use every day,” he says. The biggest challenge for vendors, he adds, is that they are competing with thousands of other companies on the Internet. But if they are not and established brand name, neither consumers nor agents know who they are or how to find them. “We create that forum,” he says. SolarNet, originally called Solars, which stands for “simple online agency reservation system,” continues to upgrade its product. On Feb 26 it completed worked started last May to establish a direct connection to Sabre. Says O’Leary: “SolarNet’s business focus is on providing affordable automation solutions for the small to midsize leisure and specialty vendor segments of the travel industry. “Our strategy is to be the entry point for the multichannel distribution of applications and information for segments of the industry currently not represented on the major GDSs.” He adds that the direct connection allows SolarNet to pursue a variety of vendors. And while it has focused mostly on consolidators since going public in 1995, SolarNet wants to offer agents more on the leisure side. “The global nature of the connectivity gives us the ability to bring in overseas vendors,” says O’Leary, “so on the leisure side, there’s more of an international flavor and product.” SolarNet already has this with Apollo and Galileo, but O’Leary says the Sabre connection, with Sabre’s affiliation with Abacus in the Asia-Pacific region, increases its global presence and will also add reliability.