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To: Pullin-GS who wrote (13688)	3/11/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

NASDAQ, American Stock exchange eye merger New York Times - Posted at 6:34 p.m. PST Wednesday, March 11, 1998 NEW YORK -- The American Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers are discussing a combination that would give them enough heft to seriously challenge the giant New York Stock Exchange, according to several people close to the talks. The image of the NASD, which governs the Nasdaq stock market, has been tarnished in recent years by allegations of price fixing, while the American Stock Exchange has become a distant third in U.S. stock trading. Details about the structure of combination were sketchy Wednesday night, in part because they were still being worked out and exchange members had not been fully informed. People close to the talks said the NASD would create a holding company under which the Amex and the Nasdaq would continue to operate separately as subsidiaries. Nasdaq is an electronic exchange, with broker-dealers posting on computers the prices at which they are willing to trade. The New York Stock Exchange and the Amex are auction markets, where prices are arrived at through ''open outcry'' trading at a certain spot on a central trading floor. Under the proposal, companies would have the choice of where their stocks would be listed. Nasdaq, which has superior technology and larger trading volume, is home to some of the nation's fastest growing high technology companies and has attracted a following among speculative investors who have profited handsomely from the explosive gains of such stocks in recent years. But it has had trouble attracting international companies, which are more familiar with the open-outcry system used by the Amex. Amex, which has struggled to attract new listings and to increase its trading volume, would benefit from Nasdaq's technological edge without having to spend money to build its own upgraded systems. If the move is approved, it could ultimately lead to a meshing of the two marketplaces with Nasdaq's electronic trading taking the place of much of the trading activity on the floor. Not only are the trading systems different, but so are the cultures. Obstacles to the merger would include winning approval of memberships of both organizations, a task that will most likely come down to persuading Wall Street that the gains will go to the bottom line. ''Wall Street pays for all three markets, so why have the redundancy?'' asked one person who was briefed on the developing talks. ''Over all, you get the cost structure down.'' That, he continued, could mean savings for investors as well. I have followed Juniper some the last 6 months. Always good to have another piece of the puzzle. Thanx. o~~~ O

To: Pullin-GS who wrote (13688)	3/11/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

The Juniper Team Juniper has drawn management resources and engineering talent from the leading providers of high-performance networking, including Bay Networks, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, StrataCom, Sun Microsystems, 3Com, and Xerox. junipernetworks.com junipernetworks.com Financing and Partners Investment Partners Juniper Networks has received a total of $62 million in funding from world leading companies and premier technology venture capitalists: $46 million in equity financing raised from eight communications and networking companies: AT&T Ventures and the Anschutz Family Investment Company LLC., Ericsson, Inc., Lucent Technologies, NorTel (Northern Telecom), The Siemens/Newbridge Alliance, 3Com Corporation, and Worldcom/UUNET Technologies. $16 million in venture financing from New Enterprise Associates (NEA); Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPC&B); Institutional Venture Partners (IVP); Crosspoint Venture Partners; Benchmark Capital; and Venture Lending and Leasing. Strategic Relationships IBM is providing custom Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS) for Juniper's new class of Internet backbone devices. Under the agreement, IBM is manufacturing Juniper's custom-designed chips. junipernetworks.com I thought (think) it was you who posted about Juniper...way long time ago. <g> Back in the days when...Bots were Bots.

To: Pullin-GS who wrote (13688)	3/14/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

PC Buses Mobile-Systems Developers Consider 'Card X' Proposal -- PCMCIA may embrace fledgling 1394, USB Pasadena, Calif. - Taking a long view of the future of the PCMCIA bus, a working group within the PC-card organization is considering a proposal that would also embrace the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and 1394. The forward-looking proposal comes at a time when mobile-systems developers are distressed by the slow progress with the new serial buses. A senior engineer from Compaq Computer Corp. has submitted a proposal dubbed Card X to a PCMCIA working group. The proposal calls for a future version of the PC-card bus that would embrace the current 16- and 32-bit versions of the PCMCIA bus, as well as 1394 and USB. "The question here is that if 1394 eventually replaces PCI inside the PC, what's the future of the PCMCIA bus?" asked Rebecca Krull, new-business planning manager at 3Com Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), who is part of the working group. "The answer behind Card X is an evolution that embraces PC Card-16, the 32-bit CardBus, USB and 1394. Krull brought the Card X proposal to light earlier this month at a mobile-systems conference here. techweb.com o~~~ O