Been reading INNI thread..............
Vegas is there, along with Mr. Meade, Isreal, T Burke, Nigel,Young gun, Fuza, Seeker and more. They been sitting on this one playing it from .20 to 3/8. Sorry guy's... Anyhow its IBM they have a partnership with owning 16% of the co. , not Microsoft and an alliance deal with Netscape.
MERCHANT/400,COMMERCE/400, WEBSERVER/400 and WEBULATOR/400 IS going to make them money.......
I/NET just recently started sales to Asia (mainly Japan) market.
(1) Main Products:
I asked about the retail price of I/NET's main products (in order to estimate earnings).
Here is what I got.
I/NET's main products includes MERCHANT/400 (retail price $15,000, must be used
with Commerce Server/400 ), COMMERCE/400 (retail price $4995),
WEBSERVER/400 (retail price $2995) and WEBULATOR/400 (retail price $2995).
Netscape SuiteSpot server products will be ported by I/NET to AS/400 and will be
released on the end of July. The first one coming out will be the Enterprise Server. The
price is not set yet.
(2) The Market for I/NET's Main Products
I/NET's main products are specifically for IBM AS/400 users. There are about half
million AS/400 users worldwide. The new AS/400E, mainly targeted at network server
market, is expected to sell between 25,000 to 50,000 units per year. The ported
Netscape products will be for the new RISC based AS/400E with V4R2. The current
worldwide AS/400 market is illustrated below:
US and Canada: 30%
Europe: 45%
Asia: 20% (with 80% of users in Japan)
Other: 5%
I/NET just recently started sales to Asia (mainly Japan) market.
Recently, I/NET lunched Career/Net. It is marketed by a Miami company. Customerssigned up so far include Citibank and pageNet.
I/NET is also doing consulting business. For example, it designed IBM's AS/400 web
site and has just extended its contract with IBM to maintain that site |
