Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WHL who wrote (28780)	5/7/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Chew On This You are a paid shill trying to knock down RACE's price and everybody knows it. WHL, haven't we heard this joke enough times for one day? Chew on this: The Accusation Webets May 7 1998 10:10AM EDT Marshall, where do you get your information from? I see only one explanation. You must be a senior level Data Race sales or marketing manager, who tries to manipulate this message board in order to maintain the stock value. An additional evidence that this is the case is that you posted data about 27% Series C Preferred Stock conversion level BEFORE the full text of 10-Q became available. messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com The Response Marshall May 7 1998 1:17PM EDT When a group of people has been following a company for almost two years (some for longer) you learn who to call and what can be said by who. Incidentally I think you'll find that about a third of that offering has now been converted and I found that out the same way anyone else could find out - with a simple phone call. messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com The Contradiction or So Much for the Simple Phone Call Marshall May 7 1998 2:09AM EDT Something was said about a logical, easily deployable solution for "last mile" situations. No details were revealed but it sort of sounded as if they weren't just working on this on their own. messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com The Truth messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com YOU HAVE TO LOVE IT: SOMETHING WAS SAID about a logical, easily deployable solution for "last mile" situations. NO DETAILS WERE REVEALED but it SOFT OF SOUNDED AS IF they weren't just working on this on their own.

To: WHL who wrote (28780)	5/8/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Jonathan Quick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

WHL, Sounds like screaming BS to me. It's a personal thing betwixt the two main characters. Even so, Rod is correct about Data Race's future prospects. Marshall is either delusional or he is so desperate that he no longer cares about damaging his credibility with statements that even the casual observer can see right through. In the grand scheme of things, Marshall's posts do more harm in my opinion in that it's still remotely possible that he might once again waylay the uninformed into yet another RACE to destruction. Jonathan BTW, Marshall, how many trim pieces have fallen off your GP so far? I'll bet the rattles are starting to get annoying. Just for kicks, take the GP through a car wash with an underbody wash. Trust me, when I say that you'll marvel at the results... :)

To: WHL who wrote (28780)	5/11/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

,.-"-.,.-"-.,-"-., OF INTEREST TO SOME --- ¥¥¥¥¥¥ So many just don't understand that the company is always willing to communicate, figured I'd try my luck and sent a letter to the CEO. Here's the text of my question followed by Dr. Barker's response: >Dr. Barker - > > Do you think that the anticipation of a potentially non-tariffed VoIP >situation may have resulted in some indecision from potential Be There! >customers, and do you think that the recent statements from the FCC may >have indeed better clarified this issue to the marketplace? I have not seen VoIP as an impediment, but rather an opportunity for Be There! sales. VoIP has been creating confusion in the market, because it is so many different things to different people. It is being used by some as a way for doing telephony over the LAN or campus network. It can work well in this setting if the LAN is underutilized and any routers within the campus net are either seriously underloaded or support QOS guarantees. VoIP is also being used in the context of private WANs or VPNs. If a company has leased line, frame relay, ATM, or a similar private or semi-private network, and either (1) the net has lots of excess capacity, or (2) it has sufficient excess capacity and it supports QOS guarantees, then the company can deploy VoIP to link together their offices, often at the sacrifice of some quality. VoIP is being talked about, and is probably starting to be rolled out, by some ISPs, whose networks support QOS guarantees. These providers are able to offer VoIP service to their customers who use that ISP to connect multiple offices, or in some cases, between companies that subscribe to their service. It is generally accepted that these services, which require the ISP to dedicate bandwidth to the QOS connection even at the expense of other customers, will be priced higher, and will not be $0 per minute. VoIP is also used by hobbyists to communicate over the Internet generally. These communications are $0 per minute, but are more like ham radio than like telephony. Generally, in order to obtain low enough packet loss rates to enable acceptable speech, round-trip delays of the order of 2 seconds are required. This results in a protocol in which you talk, say over, wait a couple of seconds, and hear a response. This is clearly not acceptable for normal business communications. None of these uses address the issue of how to do remote access. Some of the vendors talk in terms of a remote access solution, but are targeting people with DSL or high-speed leased-line service to their home, so they become part of the normal network infrastructure. IP is the wrong layer to do the voice/data multiplexing on a dial-up or other low-speed line. IP is not designed to deal efficiently with the small, time-critical packets that characterize voice over slow, error-prone lines. Be There! is the only product or technology available that allows efficient data access while simultaneously supporting business-quality phone calls. As such, it is the only technology which offers a solution to the remote access piece of the VoIP opportunity. It is in this context that Be There! is attracting heightened interest from certain potential partners in the computer and communications systems markets. It will also be interesting to see, as our patents start to issue, what impact they may have on this market, though I must as always caution that patents are seldom of strategic value in technology markets. I hope this answers your question. If I can help further, let me know. /Ben