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To: Sector Investor who wrote (38325)	3/7/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: Gary Korn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

ASND options open interest (just found it on Track On Line). For March calls, a strike of 35 has the most OI (18,992) For April calls, a strike of 40 has the most OI ( 3,603): QQA C C_BID C_ASK C_PRC C_CHG C_VOL CTIME C_HI C_LO C_OPEN C_TV CHR MAR 20 CD 14.75 15.12 14.75 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 340 15.10 99 MAR 23 CX 12.25 12.62 12.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 404 12.60 99 MAR 25 CE 9.75 10.12 10.12 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1743 10.11 99 MAR 30 CF 5.00 5.25 5.00 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 9331 5.14 98 MAR 35 CG 1.25 1.37 1.31 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 18992 1.15 53 MAR 40 CH .13 .25 .13 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 12813 .06 5 MAR 45 CI .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 4357 .00 0 MAR 50 CJ .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1930 .00 0 MAR 55 CK .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 941 .00 0 MAR 60 CL .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1310 .00 0 APR 25 DE 10.00 10.38 10.00 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 23 10.23 99 APR 30 DF 5.50 5.87 5.50 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 711 5.54 88 APR 35 DG 2.37 2.56 2.50 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 2783 2.12 55 APR 40 DH .75 .88 .75 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 3603 .55 20 APR 45 DI .13 .25 .19 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1421 .10 5 JUN 20 FD 15.12 15.50 15.12 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 367 15.39 99 JUN 23 FX 12.88 13.25 12.88 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 200 12.97 98 JUN 25 FE 10.62 11.00 10.87 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1200 10.63 95 JUN 30 FF 6.75 7.12 6.87 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 2932 6.49 80 For March puts, a strike of 35 has the most OI For April puts, a strike of 35 has the most OI: QQA C P_BID P_ASK P_PRC P_CHG P_VOL PTIME P_HI P_LO P_OPEN P_TV PHR MAR 20 OD .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 3040 .00 0 MAR 23 OX .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1715 .00 0 MAR 25 OE .00 .06 .06 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 4518 .00 0 MAR 30 OF .13 .19 .19 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 6759 .02 -1 MAR 35 OG 1.19 1.31 1.31 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 7786 1.03 -46 MAR 40 OH 5.00 5.25 5.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 2036 4.95 -96 MAR 45 OI 9.87 10.25 10.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 130 9.94 -99 MAR 50 OJ 14.87 15.25 15.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 45 14.94 -99 MAR 55 OK 19.87 20.25 20.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 2 19.94 -99 MAR 60 OL 24.87 25.25 25.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 60 24.94 -99 APR 25 PE .00 .13 .13 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 10 .01 0 APR 30 PF .63 .69 .69 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1042 .29 -11 APR 35 PG 2.25 2.44 2.44 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1152 1.86 -45 APR 40 PH 5.50 5.87 5.87 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 519 5.29 -80 APR 45 PI 9.87 10.25 10.25 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 26 9.94 -99 JUN 20 RD .06 .19 .19 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1140 .01 0 JUN 23 RX .19 .31 .31 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 673 .05 -1 JUN 25 RE .50 .63 .63 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 1507 .18 -4 JUN 30 RF 1.44 1.62 1.62 .00 0 0: 0 .00 .00 2685 .97 -19

To: Sector Investor who wrote (38325)	3/8/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

sector, i am truly disappointed with your answer. no set time frame. you have not turned into an analyst from montsec ("i see possible market volatility")? now to discuss your interesting quote: Before Corporations will really open their pocketbooks for more powerful and capable PCs, they have to upgrade their networks significantly. - si outside of engineers and developers, how many corporate workers need more bandwith? the vast majority use the pc for mundane tasks. i believe we will be waiting for the nt/95 merge until the next mass waves high end pc buying/replacement. at the earliest, year 2001. i still have not seen anyone upgrading desktops to fiber or fast ethernet, the mode still seems switching and the servers and printers receiving the fast connections. We see this core infrastructure upgrades beginning to occur now. - si in what way do you see this beginning?

To: Sector Investor who wrote (38325)	3/8/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: jach	Respond to of 61433

<Until new bandwidth intensive applications arrive at the desktop, there will be little need to upgrade these boxes enmasse, beyond replacement purchase levels. The internet is a major source for these bandwidth intensive applications to the desktop, particularly when E-commerce really takes off. Others would be VPNs with Video conferencing, multimedia E-Mail, FAX to the desktop, etc.> real enmasse-usage will happen when PC/device adapts to our needs in an intuitive way instead of we clicking, pointing, asking and filtering down what we want; also have to be at affordable price levels -