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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (44458)	8/26/2000 1:02:44 AM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 45548

imo, this guy makes some good points... By Dan Rosenbaum August 25, 2000, Winmag.com "Wiring Candlestick On Candlestick Point, on the south side of San Francisco, there's a sports stadium. Many know it as Candlestick Park, home of the 49ers. Since 1996, it's been known officially if not universally as 3Com Park. (The Giants happily decamped this past spring to the nearby comfy confines of PacBell Park.) 3Com just signed to retain the naming rights to Candlestick, and has announced a new amenity befitting the company's network-based product strategy. Starting this fall, patrons in the stadium's luxury boxes will be able to "use PDAs to communicate with each other in the stadium and with fans watching or listening to the game at home," a press release said. I can easily understand using PDAs to get things like statistics or replays on the spur of the moment. But one of the whole points of buying a luxury box is to get away from the hoi polloi. Communicate with each other? I'd bet that most skybox denizens have cell phones and know how to use them. Communicate with fans at home? I can't say I've ever heard anyone in a skybox say they wanted to do any such thing. It's perfectly reasonable for a networking company to wire the stadium they've paid to carry its name. I'm looking forward to hearing how that network is really used."