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Technology Stocks : Net Perceptions, Inc. (NETP) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (1115)	6/10/1999 10:01:00 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Respond to of 2908

You're still a young sprout. Not to worry.

To: SecularBull who wrote (1115)	6/11/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 2908

LoD: Many investors may not realize the significance of this development that became public in the last 8 weeks. NETP has a partnership with the Sun-Netscape alliance for e-commerce (and indirectly with AOL). IMO, the LONG TERM implications of this could be BIG. Check out the following passage from this news.com article: <<The Sun-Netscape alliance has dubbed its e-commerce road map for Netscape's e-commerce applications "Full, Speed, Ahead." The "full" segment includes partnerships with two personalization vendors, NetPerceptions and Andromedia, which markets the Like Minds software. Both are smaller rivals to BroadVision and signal that Sun has dropped Netscape's internal efforts to build personalization into the software. For configuration software, AOL and Sun are allied with Trilogy and Selectica. All four software partners will work with the former Netscape division to make their software interoperate. Sun will also announce an outsourced catalog service, run by Aspect Development or Harbinger, for suppliers that want their catalog listings to work with Sun-Netscape electronic procurement software, BuyerXpert. A hosting partner for that service will be announced soon, Sun and AOL said. That alliance also will name a dozen suppliers who will feed their catalog data directly to BuyerXpert customers, including software store Beyond.com and Dell Computer, and office suppliers Boise Cascade, Office Depot, Staples, and BT Office Products. In Sun and AOL's "Full, Speed, Ahead" strategy, "speed" refers to expanded partnerships with systems integrators to implement Netscape's e-commerce software. "Ahead" describes accelerated efforts with Sun and former Netscape engineers to improve offerings and ease installation of the e-commerce software. Sun and AOL said new partners will be named in the second half of the year. The emphasis on partnerships represents something of a departure for the former Netscape, although it had incorporated technology from about 15 other companies in its core e-commerce applications. "There was probably more development early on to strengthen the core applications," said Daphne Carmelli, a vice president with the Sun-Netscape alliance. "Now we have more flexibility to do more. It's an evolution, not a departure. No one vendor can do it all.">> To view the complete article go to... news.com NETP has a lot of growth initiatives underway. More than many investors are familiar with. Stay tuned and enjoy the weekend. Best Regards, Scott