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To: jhild who wrote (12427)	2/4/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 22053

I guess Bunker Hunt and his brother were a little ahead of their time. jhild, Conering the silver market seems to occur every 10 years. No one ever seems to turn a profit. This move by Warren Buffit surprises me. Glenn

To: jhild who wrote (12427)	2/5/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

High-Speed Switching Standard Delayed at Least Until June San Francisco, Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A networking industry standards board has delayed at least until June the adoption of a standard for a high-speed switching technology that's expected to spur sales growth throughout the industry. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers failed to resolve technical issues concerning so-called gigabit Ethernet technology before adjourning its latest meeting, said 3Com Corp. and market researcher Tamm Dell'Oro of the Dell'Oro Group. The IEEE board is expected to consider the technical issues at its next meeting in March and won't ratify them at least until June. Gigabit Ethernet technology allows data to be transferred within a corporate network 10 times faster than current switching devices. The delay in standards may cause corporate buyers to put off purchases of gigabit Ethernet networking products, or decide to go with competing technologies such as asynchronous transfer mode, or ATM, switches, market researcher Dell'Oro said. ''People would rather buy standardized ATM than proprietary gigabit Ethernet,'' she said. Although analysts don't expect the market for products using the technology to take off until late this year, it is expected to rise to more than $2 billion by 2000, according to a report by the market research firm Dataquest. Companies including Cisco Systems Inc., 3Com Corp., Bay Networks Inc. and Cabletron Systems Inc. have announced plans to ship gigabit Ethernet products in the first half of this year. o~~~ O