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To: Jay who wrote (42325)	12/15/1997 8:34:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 186894

Intel Is Inside Small Business (12/15/97; 9:53 a.m. EST) By Herman Mehling, Computer Reseller News Intel is flexing its considerable manufacturing and marketing muscle to penetrate further "inside" the small-business market. "Our small-business focus is concentrated on providing small businesses with the processing power and connectivity solutions to help them create, store, and share office resources and Internet access," said Wily Agatstein, small-business platform marketing manager at Intel, in Santa Clara, Calif. To push its small-business messages to the world, Intel kicked off national television and print advertising campaigns this month. The initiative reaches across its product lineup, from CPUs and servers to networking gear and electronic commerce Web programs. The company's strategy on the CPU side of the house is to provide small businesses with motherboards designed for their needs and budgets, Agatstein said. The company's first "small-business" motherboard is the RC440LX, an entry-level, dual processor, Pentium II-based board, he said. The RC440LX can be matched with either one or two 233-MHz or 266-MHz Pentium II processors. Agatstein said the board ships with preinstalled security and reliability monitoring, as well as management capabilities. A well-managed server reduces the small business' total cost of ownership, increases a server's reliability and serviceability, and protects the company against unplanned downtime, he said. Included on the board is Intel's LANDesk Server Manager software, which provides the ability to monitor variables such as voltage, temperature, chassis intrusion, and ECC-memory errors from a console on the network. "This is the first of a series of small-business-specific motherboards," Agatstein said.

To: Jay who wrote (42325)	12/15/1997 8:35:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 186894

In the networking arena, Intel plans to unveil a number of new products in the first six months of 1998, Agatstein said. "Aside from CPUs, networking connectivity products are our main small-business interest -- and they seem to be the products the channel is most interested in. Getting connected either to a LAN or to the Internet is one of the best ways that a small business can get the most from its technology investment," he said. Intel's lineup of networking gear ranges from the Intel EtherExpress family of client, server, and mobile adapters to the Express family of hubs, switches, and routers to the NetportExpress family of print servers. To beef up its networking expertise, the vendor recently acquired Dayna Communications, a Salt Lake City-based maker of small-business networking products. The jewel in the crown of the acquisition is Dayna's NetCenter Internet Station, a router-based communications server that provides simple, multiple-user access to the Internet through one-line and individual dial-up services over a LAN through one or two lines. It also is a modem pooler. "We are combining their products with our manufacturing expertise to develop new and better products, that will still be similar to Dayna's," Agatstein said. Dayna is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel and operates in Salt Lake City as part of Intel's Network Products Division. The Internet Station product, which will be renamed soon, will play a key part in Intel's Internet-technology plans for the small-business market, he said. Another product that seems likely to figure even more strongly in its vendor's Internet plans is Intel Quick Web Technology, which promises to deliver fast downloading of static information from the Web. The technology, which is still being tested, will reside on ISPs' servers and on servers at Network Access Points. "Although Quick Web Technology is not a specifically small-business product, it probably will benefit small businesses the most because the majority of small businesses and their customers use regular phone lines," he said. "In addition, it will benefit them because they will not need to add software or hardware to use it."

To: Jay who wrote (42325)	12/15/1997 8:36:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel's Quick Web Technology uses several techniques, notably compression and caching, to speed up the downloading process. To date in the Web space, Intel has been active in e-commerce, forging relationships with a number vendors to bring e-commerce solutions to small businesses, Agatstein said. E-commerce partners include BigBook, CommerceWave, Four11, Icat, Intershop Communications, OnVillage Communications, and ViaWeb. Intel is relying extensively on the expertise of the channel to promote its small-business initiative, Agatstein said. "We have begun incorporating small-business material into the Intel processor dealer program, through which we provide training three times a year on a worldwide basis," Agatstein said. "In the United States, we provide this training in 40 cities." Beyond its products, partnerships, and channel activities, Agatstein said Intel is embarking on an evangelical mission to spread the word about the benefits of technology for small businesses. Recently, it created a small-business Website (www.intel.com/business/small), a resource guide to products and services relevant to small businesses, and a small-business roundtable program.

To: Jay who wrote (42325)	12/15/1997 8:43:00 PM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

JAY Thanks I did buy back 6000 shs intcw at 48 5/8 today , i was sold at 79 3/8 EFII may go little lower but will up as least 200 % to 250 % by the end 1998 ( or ACID get over sooner ) ''This company has had 21 consecutive earnings surprises, it has exceeded forecasts for 21 consecutive quarters,'' i do not just buy everthing is cheap like ORCL OR MU i had been wait for more than 2 years to get hold this stock ( EFII down 75 % )same with MSFT i had to wait one day after oct 19 1987 (c) ps/ still hold my AMD short at 33 7/8 but everthing can go wrong sooner than we think , let take one day a time good luck