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To: MMW who wrote (9589)	9/21/1999 4:04:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

THREAD Related Quotes LU 69 13/16 -1/4 delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Tuesday September 21, 2:16 am Eastern Time Iwatsu Electric, Lucent agree on Japan tie-up TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iwatsu Electric Co Ltd said on Tuesday it and Lucent Technologies Inc (NYSE:LU - news) of the United States had agreed on a broad business tie-up in Japan including joint development, production and sales of equipment and software for computer-telephony integration. Iwatsu said in a statement the companies will cooperate in modifying Lucent Technology's products for the Japanese market. A spokesman for Iwatsu said the company expects the tie-up to boost its annual sales in the business year to March 2002 by five billion yen. BEST WISHES BILL

To: MMW who wrote (9589)	9/21/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

MMW, The article written by DataCom is a slam article. Cisco, LU and other folks didn't participate in their little study so their recourse is to print negative statements about the companies...notwithstanding inventory issues that each company said they have. DataCom makes money by selling ad space. Studies like this are intended to increase readership allowing them to use this data to charge more for ad space. When companies don't participate (regardless of the reason) the study is comprimised. DataCom's response is to blast companies for not participating. The fact of the matter is that there is no reason a market leader should expose themselves to the possibility of negative critisism by providing products to a testing lab. On the other hand it's in the best interest of start up's to provide free product...they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So, it comes as no surprise that JNPR was the only company to provide product. It also comes as no surprise that DataCom made positive comments regarding the product...kind of a slap in the fact to other that didn't participate. MMW, it was a whiny little article... Datacom whining about the fact that the vendors didn't want to come out a play. Well, tough! Next time they should put their orders in just like paying customers. Why should the vendors turn over revenue generating platforms to a study that will potentially yeild erroneous results. BTW: having been involved with studies like this in the past I can tell you that unless they allow a company technician in the lab to run the test that they have a higher liklihood of yeilding erroneous data than not. AND, most managers of studies in fact will not allow company technicians in to "tune" their products. The results therefore don't match the real world. OG