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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1504)	4/28/1998 6:56:00 PM
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HoTMetaL competitor [MSFT] FrontPage endorses RNWK G2. RealNetworks Announces Broad Industry Support for RealSystem G2; More Than 100 Technology Companies Support RealNetworks RealSystem G2* "...Today at the RealNetworks Conference '98, RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - news), the recognized leader in streaming media, announced that more than 100 technology companies will support RealSystem(TM) G2 a next-generation media delivery system for the Internet and corporate intranets...RealSystem G2 is based on the industry standards Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and has the ability to stream multiple datatypes, and provide one button access to favorite streaming media programming. RealSystem G2 is the first open, cross- platform client-server system for streaming multimedia on the Internet. ''Microsoft FrontPage 98 users can easily create Web pages and incorporate streaming audio and video content into their sites,'' said Pat Kirtland, group product manager, Microsoft Corporation [Nasdaq:MSFT - news]. ''RealSystem G2 allows our customers who use RealAudio and RealVideo to offer higher quality and more reliable streaming media content in their FrontPage-based Webs than ever before..." &copy 1998 biz.yahoo.com note: esecurities attended RNWKs March 1997 annual conference wherein we reported on this thread SoftQuad's conspicuous absence from said conference and NetObjects very conspicuous attendance (and endorsement of RealMedia)...Microsoft took the honors this year...so, where does HoTMetaL Pro stand with [arguably] the most important technology which simply will make the internet more important and pervasive than radio and television...MSFT correctly aligned/branded FrontPage with RealNetworks' G2...SoftQuad did not...this will not go unnoticed with SoftQuad's existing customer base, the media, the industry, the rest of the world.....and this may merely further confirm that the SoftQuad-side of SWEBF Holdings is simply too academically entrenched to see the [marketing/shareholder value] forest from the trees...more a lack of [SWEBF] common-sense than a superior FrontPage 98 product?... ....at the speed internet component companies require establishing critical mass...perception simply is reality... * source: Message 4243683