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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1277)	3/18/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Respond to of 4231

Another [major] eCommerce alliance: Geocities and OpenMarket. "...GeoCities Offers Shops to All Merging commerce with community, and also seeking a revenue stream in addition to banner ads, GeoCities today introduced GeoShops. Through a partnership with Internet Commerce Services Corp., which uses software provided by Open Market, GeoShops allows any homesteader to "commerce-enable" their site to sell products on the Internet. GeoCities said it expects more than 100,000 marketers and online shops to take advantage of the offer. Merchants seeking credit card transaction capability will pay a startup fee, and all merchants will be charged a minimum of $80 a month for participation..." &copy 1998 PCWorld's Tipworld, Internet Daily CBS.Marketwatch.com ...this is big and clearly the trend...precisely what we were referring to, only today re:Internet's formidable, unrelenting path of least resistance and take no prisoners attitude...alliances, alliances, alliances, huge $, huge R&D...

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1277)	3/19/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: SlyWombat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4231

>If we were SWEBF we would aggressively go after At&T, Sybase, Oracle, Netscape It looks like to me that there are still two companies at SoftQuad, Alpha with retail channel and SoftQuad selling SGML/XML/HTML products. The power clearly lies with the Alpha side of the fence right now. Alpha dropped the ball last quarter, but is making up this quarter with the 747 product. SoftQuad side is an unknown for revenue, but I think they must be having an uphill battle internally getting things done. I don't expect that they have the resources or direction to agressively go after large partner deals. I am still bullish on SoftQuad as I expect that SoftQuad will meet their revenue targets this quarter and Alpha should exceed theirs. I am curious, does anyone have an org chart or anything. After the Rabin bros, from the web page we do not see any of the operations folks. Who is in charge of sales? marketing? stuff like that. Corporate Officers David J. Gurney Chairman of the Board (inactive?, pushed out?) Richard Rabins Chief Executive Officer (not in Toronto) Selwyn Rabins President (not in Toronto) Steven H. Schneider - Chief Financial Officer (not in Toronto)