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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: andrew peterson who wrote (1037)	1/5/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: fat boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

There was an interesting article in computer currents magazine this month. I found the article online.... currents.net Talks about e-commerce and mentions IBM (their Net.Commerce Start package). Security seems to be a major concern. I liked the last part of the article...which states: "Catch the online shopping WAVE" Currently there are "three main categories" for e-commerce solutions: 1- all in one software solutions 2- moving a site to a host server...and 3- outsourcing the transaction mechanism and parts of the shopping experience. Would WAVE be able to take advantage of all of these situations? If anyone has time to scan the article let me know what you think? Chubbs

To: andrew peterson who wrote (1037)	1/7/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Paul Schmidt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Hi, Andrew Yes! Great link And the nice bit about Wave's technology, is that it runs in the background, and therefore should be able to keep it's nose clean with regards to the early failures that the OEM's undoubtedly fear will damage their reputations. In that sense Wave is not carrying the risk. I am interested to know (without wanting to generate the sort of technical arguments which some threads become embroiled in) how the Wavemeter will be involved in the HDTV datastream. Mr. Sprague indicated in one of his posts that it could handle essentially any datastream that you could currently throw at it (up to 100 Mbit/sec?) Questions for the techies. Does anyone know what the data requirements of HDTV is (your link, Andrew, mentions 4X the speed of DVD, whatever that speed is). 2nd Q: Seeing that the Wavemeter really only needs to be involved in the billing of the different ingoing datastreams, does it actually get involved with the "content" data stream? 3rd Q: Can the Wavemeter handle/bill several simultaneous datastreams. Practical scenario: say I'm watching a music video from MTV (pay per view) and decide I like it and want to add it to my collection (pay per copy) even while it is playing, activating the Wintel part of my PC/TV to put my application in (2nd billing). All the while I am updating my share database in the background by downloading from Reuters website (subscription billing). I realize this is a extreme/idealized scenario, but it would be interesting to know the flexibility of the Wavemeter. As for Wintel's aspirations to handle anything that complex in the near future, I have grave doubts, just judging how my recent download of a Office97 service pack from MSFT website ground to a halt, the moment another CPU intensive process started up. They will need parallel processing in some form. Cheerio. ...and belated Happy New Year to everyone.