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To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (2528)	2/19/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

Hi Jules , seems both IBM & ATT like Olympic returns IBM invested $140 mln in the Olympics and this week , at IBM's Business Partners Conference in SF, promised another $750 mln . IBM's advertising expense seems justified as "you can't sell 'em if you don't tell 'em" . techweb.com IBM said it believes its Olympics site experience, which it has been building since the flame went out at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, will translate directly to its e-business strategy. "If we can build a site to handle 40 million to 70 million users, it's the largest website that's ever been built, in essence, the largest demo of e-business ever built," said John Chiavelli, IBM manager of Olympic Internet systems. "We're taking data from multiple data services, combining the content, and presenting it to the user." Incidentaly Jules , Mohan posted on the "Ideas" thread the same concerns about INTC that you hold for IBM : Message 3474918 "... doesn't it bother you that Intel now earns less than what it did last year with a mere 1% gain in sales - yet the stock is more than 20% higher than what it was a year ago?* "* Jim K.