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To: Mike Paulin who wrote (2852)	3/16/1998 8:59:00 AM
From: Gator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6076

Mike, I saw Sly's response to your post at Stockhouse, so I though I would cross-post it here: "It's Commercial products are still the key. ie. Tagalongs and Netnotions and hopefully Dr.Bean. Hotnotions I understand was created for 2 purposes. Firstly, as a marketing tool to allow people to use it online and get a feel for the product. Hopefully, liking it and deciding an off line or intranet version would be useful in their network.Hence purchasing NetNotions. And secondly, as a revenue generator for ad-revenue. Products like ICQ and Hotmail have brought millions in value to their company because of the value of having so many users make use of their product. However, in the software industry a product must go through Beta before it is released commercially. So eventhough, they are not generating direct income from Hotnotions they still need to develop the product the way all software products are developed by going from Alpha to Beta to Commercial release. Sly " >>> Rather than continue to cross-post on this subject, here's the URL: stockhouse.com for those that may be interested... Later...Gator