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Technology Stocks : Identix (IDNX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David who wrote (13972)	6/21/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Digital Persona is upgrading its U are U product (from today's InformationWeek): " . . . The upgrade, U.are.U Professional, will add a plug-and-play Universal Serial Bus driver for Windows NT users. Its software is also being redesigned to let IT managers have a single point of logon administration for fingerprint ID, passwords, smart cards, and other countersigns. "Customers told Digital Persona they didn't want a closed system that managed only fingerprints, says corporate marketing VP Nancy Van Natta. 'They needed a system that handled all kinds of user authentication.' . . . "[The] U.are.U Professional [will] store fingerprint algorithms on the server, eliminating the need for users to register their prints on each system. "U.are.U Professional, which is due out in September, will cost $150." ================== In other words, U are U needed a network version to be competitive with Identicator. Note the price; at $150 it is still much higher than the Compaq peripheral and will be a lot more expensive than the next generation IDT device, which will easily match the U are U software.