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To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (9529)	11/5/2001 11:19:30 PM
From: techanalyst1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Businesses still need to use the internet. Lots of work still needs to be done. Tech isn't dead.... any more than Intel was in 1985. TA

To: schrodingers_cat who wrote (9529)	11/5/2001 11:43:34 PM
From: schrodingers_cat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57684

I'm thinking about which tech companies might benefit from the fight against terrorism. If national ID cards and databases of visitor visas are implemented, then the database makers, consultancies and storage vendors would benefit. Say you want to store 50k of biometric data on each of 300 million people. 50k should be enough for a decent photograph of the person. Does anyone have any idea what a database of 15TB with 300 million records would cost? Real time acess over the internet would be required, of course. Any idea if this is a big potential business opportunity?