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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11997)	9/15/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

<Nice spread> Why is this an advantage?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11997)	9/15/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Btw, MSFT just announced they are buying Visio, so GNET will have some company. Interesting turn of events. Microsoft claims that Visio will stay where it is, so GNET will indeed have Microsoft as a neighbor in their new digs. (I don't think that will last long, however. I suspect that there will be a move to Redmond as soon as they can pull out of the current leases.) And it's always worthwhile to worry about earthquakes here, but the new digs seem fairly safe since wood is one of the more quake-resistant building materials. Since it's on an inland sea -- Puget Sound -- it faces little risk of tsumami. The huge plate quakes that rock this area every few hundred years do cause massive tidal waves, but those are a risk mostly to Pacific coastal areas. They would cause only sloshing in the protected Sound. Interesting note about that: Geologists here had identified evidence of such a huge quake in the 16th or 17th century. They were able to pinpoint the date from Japanese written records of a massive tsunami that destroyed coastal villages and swamped whole forests after they recognized that the wave had started with the settling of the Juan de Fuca plate here.