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Technology Stocks : Critical Path (CPTH) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Millionairess who wrote (94)	7/14/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Xenogenetic	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 185

CPTH newbie here with some questions: Please do not interpret my questioning as critical (HAHAHA, I just had to get that one out of my system :-) ), rather, I am just uninformed. With the coming of vmail(video email) in the near future, is CPTH prepared to handle such bandwidth intensive loads? I have read up to the most current message on this thread but the majority of the posts talk about IPO specifics (which is understandable). The additional questions about CPTH that I have are: 1.)Who are CPTH's competitors? If I had to guess I would answer MESG, and MAIL. Am I correct? 2.)Are the barriers to entry into CPTH's line of business high? For example, how easy would it be for a company like Exodus, which currently has data centers up, or an Intel, which is building data centers, to spill over into CPTH's market? 3.)It seems that CPTH is not a self sustainable company in that it seems destined to be swallowed up by a larger company such as an EXDS, CSCO, etc, rather than grow into a very large company. Anyone feel the same way? If there are any specific posts/message boards on the net that you feel would aid my research of CPTH, feel free to post or PM me. Appreciate everyone's time. Thanks. -Adam