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To: Ed Frye who wrote (7159)	1/13/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Igor Nasonov	Respond to of 12559

FORE is hiring more employees - hopefully the best ones :) biz.yahoo.com Good start today, let's go NASDAQ - long due...

To: Ed Frye who wrote (7159)	1/13/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Pam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12559

Hi Ed, Thanks. If you are asking if the new switch is going to compete with NN's high-end product, the answer is NO. I think, Fore is catering mainly to the small ISP's and the enterprise markets. If the enterprise market really takes-off Fore will benefit immensely. I think, what the corporations need is a killer application to migrate from the existing Ethernet infrastructure. My feeling is that this killer application would be telephony over the LAN/WAN. Imagine getting rid of the telephone from the office and consolidating all the company traffic-voice, video and data over the same network! This will happen but as more time passes, the advantage that Fore had a couple of years back is narrowing and the bigger players are getting time to catch-up. In any case if the enterprise market takes-off, Fore will still do well because the pie will be so big that even a slice will be big enough for Fore! For the last few months, I think the institutional money is going into the stock but the stock still lacks a character of its own, it still moves in sync with the market and that has to change. Hopefully we will see that after this Q's earnings. Regards, Pam