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To: craig crawford who wrote (458)	4/2/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: volatile1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

Hey Craig... A couple of posts ago you said, "a market cap of over $1 billion for a company that loses money won't look so hot." Do you know that they should be profitable in about a year? If this is the case, do your feelings change? I also have to comment on your outlook for the markets as a whole. I think that they will have a rough year or so, but the big players and money managers are moving their money out of the hardware companies and into the software companies. They are also betting on the future of the internet. I think that a lot of these internet stocks will go down, thus sorting out the "who's who" for the future. I can't help but think that RNWK will be one of the software companies that lead us into the next century...especially with the many ways they can choose to use and expand their products.

To: craig crawford who wrote (458)	4/2/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: Scott Patrick Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

"In the short run RNWK could easily go up another 20 points. But within the next year or two I bet it sees the teens again." The teens won't be so bad after a few splits. :) Ya know gotta just love it though. We would all like to think that in two years Audio and Video streaming over IP (IP does not mean just the internet by the way,) will be as normal as Answering the telephone, Watching Sinfield and the Super Bowl, Selling products via commercials, participating in a video, going to school, listening to the radio, buying the latest Madonna album, listening to voice mail, pay for viewing the Tyson fight, etc. In the US today; The telecommunications industry is 260 billion and growing at double digits with IP services. The Entertainment industry is at least that big if not bigger. Advertising who knows. Not to mention the rest of the tech industry. See the light! Audio and video over IP will be the way all of this will happen, it is inevitable and desirable and what part RNWK plays in it who is to say, but there is no question as to their role in helping this to happen today. In the future no one really knows for sure but this is change, BIG CHANGE and BIG MONEY and change brings opportunity and big change brings BIG OPPORTUNITY. How can we say what is the value of RNWK today?