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To: Greg S. who wrote (17357)	3/6/2000 4:59:00 PM
From: Mark Peterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Thought the thread would be interested to know that tonight (Monday, 3/6), CNNfn's 'Digital Jam' program will air a live interview with Russell Horowitz, at approximately 7:40 Eastern Time (6:40 CDT; 5:40 MST; 4:40 PDT). This five-minute interview will be a Go2Net company overview/profile and will be conducted live from CNN's business news headquarters in New York. It will be hosted by Steve Young and Bruce Francis. And for those in the Seattle market, KCPQ/Channel 13 will air an interview with John Keister tonight (Monday, 3/6) as part of a story on major companies choosing to establish headquarters in downtown Seattle. It will air sometime during tonight's 30-minute 10:00 newscast. Best regards, -Mark Mark S. Peterson Director of Public Relations Go2Net, Inc.

To: Greg S. who wrote (17357)	3/6/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: Obewon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Greg, While I agree that local storage costs are an order of magnitude less than X-Drive's offering, it is the sharing/access from anywhere features that will be it's bread and butter. While local memory is nice, what happens if the computer you are using only had flash memory. All those Palm Pilot's can do alot more than their current memory allows. If you increase the size of the Pilot to accomodate a local harddrive, you compromise the portability and usefulness of the computer, a key selling point over laptops. With the advent of more and more wireless applications, portability becomes an even larger factor. The way I see it, X-drive fits in perfectly with Go2Net's strategy of buying businesses that can scale to almost any size with no need for a great deal of investment. Like SI, once it gets going, it is almost maintenance free (translating to obscene margins!). Two years ago, people thought Go2Net was crazy to purchase SI for $30M since eveyone knew that a paid subscription service wouldn't work on the Internet. The key thing they didn't consider was that it took only three employees and some computers to create and run a website as large as SI, ramping up for zero posts to 2-3M when it was sold. So don't belittle the idea just because storage is a commodity. So is an investment opinion posting and Go2Net appears to still be able to make money off of it. ) Obewon

To: Greg S. who wrote (17357)	3/6/2000 5:58:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 28311

Greg... I agree that the cost/benefit analysis doesn't yet favor x-storage. Although for those who wish to back up critical files, it may be useful to have something separate from your physical hard drive. (in case the Feds come and seize your computer because it was controlled remotely as a participant in a denial of service attack... :0). My main comment was that someone would have to provide the hardware for this service and that sounds like EMC. Nice move on GNET today. YHOO moved surprisingly strong as well. Could we be seeing a rotation back into the internutz? Regards, Ron

To: Greg S. who wrote (17357)	3/6/2000 7:27:00 PM
From: brk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Greg, I had a similar conversation with someone concerning a dedicated server. With DSL in my home, I thought briefly about having my own server to host local sites for people. I spoke with a friend who does web hosting and she rents a dedicated server though a hosting service in Nevada for a couple hundred bucks a month. Unlimited IP addresses, total control, and plenty of space. Of course it seemed more cost effective to simply buy a server for a one time fee then to pay this monthly rate. But when someone else is responsible for all the maintenance, upgrades, reliability, etc., then the monthly investment suddenly seems like the wise choice. Hardware = headaches. X - Drive is simply ahead of its market like fiber optics, wireless, and b2b were last year. It's time will come IMO. regards, brk