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To: Mark Fowler who wrote (78325)	9/23/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Mark -- selling a stock to raise cash is not over-reacting.

To: Mark Fowler who wrote (78325)	9/24/1999 5:28:00 AM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

From Forbes.com, wrt MSFT Internet efforts ----------------------------------------------------------- Still, Belluzzo & Co. have their work cut out. Despite plowing millions of dollars into a brutal marketing campaign that established Internet Explorer as the dominant web browser and decimated Netscape Communications in the process, the software giant is hardly an e-commerce heavyweight. Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN), eBay (nasdaq: EBAY), Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO) and numerous others have each done a better job in carving a profitable niche in the digital economy. Cases in point: The public's underwhelming response to Microsoft Network, which badly lags behind America Online (nyse: AOL) in subscribers, and Sidewalk. The latter, trumpeted in 1997 as an ambitious city guide of arts and entertainment listings, hasn't exactly made a dent in the $66 billion local advertising market. In July, Microsoft conceded its also-ran status and sold Sidewalk's content to Ticketmaster-Online CitySearch for a 9% stake in its rival that is worth $240 million. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Nuff said. --Olu E.