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To: jhild who wrote (15565)	5/21/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

eFusion, 3Com Form Strategic Alliance SANTA CLARA, Calif., and BEAVERTON, Ore., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- eFusion, Inc., a leading provider of Internet telephony application gateways, and 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS), the industry leader in data networking, today announced a strategic alliance to jointly provide enhanced IP telephony applications based on 3Com's Total ControlTM Solution. The primary goal of the alliance is to provide business customers with cost-effective, converged voice and data applications over the Internet. Specifically, both companies have agreed to joint engineering efforts to ensure product interoperability for electronic/Web commerce and business call center applications. 3Com and eFusion expect to complete product availability by 4Q 1998. The alliance also calls for joint marketing and sales efforts. "Our alliance with eFusion is a natural fit, complementing 3Com's vision of voice, video and data convergence and pervasive networking," stated Ross Manire, senior vice president, 3Com Carrier Systems. "3Com's mission is to provide all data users, both large and small, with the connectivity required for next-generation service creation for both Internet and enterprise network providers. eFusion's state-of-the-art software, combined with our new Total Control Solution for voice-over IP, will ensure that these customers can quickly and efficiently adapt to the evolving global marketplace using a very scalable software-based architecture." With the alliance, 3Com will support eFusion's Enhanced Internet Services IP telephony applications, including: * Internet Call Waiting -- This application alerts users to incoming phone calls while they are online. Users may accept or decline the call, send it to voicemail or choose other disposition options, all without leaving their Internet session. With Internet Call Waiting, users can now recognize and accept incoming calls while "surfing" the Internet. * Commerce-enhancing applications featuring eFusion's Push-to-Talk (PtT)(TM) Technology -- These new applications enable users to originate calls from the Internet to telephones or call centers, thus enabling shoppers to converse with merchants while continuing to view Web content. "eFusion's applications create additional revenue opportunities for service providers," said Ajit Pendse, president and chief executive officer of eFusion. "3Com's Total Control Solution provides significant cost reductions for service providers and end-users. "Our Enhanced Internet Services strategy, matched with 3Com's powerful Total Control platform, provides an excellent level of integration for IP telephony in the industry." 3Com's award-winning Total Control remote access concentrators enable customers to provide expanded services such as voice over the Internet, VPNs and video conferencing to enterprises and other service providers via current and next-generation, high-speed access technologies such as 56-Kbps analog, ISDN, xDSL and data over cable. 3Com is currently the industry leader in both revenue generated and ports shipped within the access concentrator market.* 3Com Corporation enables individuals and organizations worldwide to communicate and share information and resources at anytime from anywhere. As one of the world's preeminent suppliers of data, voice and video communications technology, 3Com has delivered networking solutions to more than 100 million customers worldwide. The company provides large enterprises, small and medium enterprises, carriers and network service providers, and consumers with comprehensive, innovative information access products and system solutions for building intelligent, reliable and high-performance local and wide area networks. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at 3com.com, or their press site at 3com.com. eFusion provides value-added Internet solutions that enable enhanced interactive communications. Their telecom-grade, business-ready solutions bring real-time human interaction to electronic commerce -- allowing consumers to share simultaneous voice and multimedia over a single phone line. The company is located at 14600 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Beaverton, OR 97006, and can be reached at 888-4EFUSION, 503-207-6300, via the Internet at efusion.com, or by email at info@efusion.com. NOTE: eFusion, Push-to-Talk and the eFusion logo are trademarks of eFusion, Inc. 3Com is a registered trademark and Total Control is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. *3Com Access Concentrator Market Share based on 1997 data from Dataquest, Dell 'Oro Group, IDC and In Stat. /CONTACT: Jennifer Guimond of KVO Public Relations, 503-221-2335, or Jennifer_Guimond@kvo.com, for eFusion; or Janet Johnson of eFusion, Inc., 503-207-6300, ext. 6432, or janet_johnson@fusion.com; or Leslie Davis of 3Com Corporation, 408-764-7187, or leslie_davis@3com.com; or Eric Eddy of The Weber Group, Inc., 650-463-8653, or eeddy@ca.webergroup.com/ o~~~ O

To: jhild who wrote (15565)	5/21/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

>>>I doubt those Republicans in congress can manage that at this point.<<< Oh make me puke Jhild!! Give us all a break on that crap...Dole and Bork are the biggest names working against MSFT...for your side!! You're really reaching and showing your prejudice... So there you pinko commie liberal democrat hollywood movie type non moral sex crazed godless...um um um poop poo head.

To: jhild who wrote (15565)	5/21/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Alliance For Internet In Europe Launched Newsbytes - May 21, 1998 14:10 BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1998 MAY 21 (NB) -- Newsbytes. 3Com [NYSE:COMS] has launched a new movement that it says is dedicated to improving and securing the future of the Internet in Europe. Known as the Alliance for the Internet in Europe (a4ie), the industry led initiative aims to provide a non-competitive forum to act as a single voice across Europe to mobilize legislators and governments to solve the issues that are preventing European commerce from taking full benefit of the Internet. Steve Rowley, 3Com Europe's vice president for Europe, said that the plan is for the a14e to act as an action group, rather than as a talking shop. "Commerce and technology leaders are coming together through the a4ie to resolve two main challenges: firstly, to develop a methodology for determining the financial issues, like tariffs and taxation, so that electronic commerce can reach its potential in Europe; and secondly, to create a solid European infrastructure to fix the access problems Europeans are experiencing when using the Internet," he said. Rowley went on to say that the increasing volume of traffic is creating the need for a more commercial approach to Internet provision. He have a warning that European commerce and industry could lose out if it does not address the issues immediately. "The issues we face in Europe are so large and complex that a single company cannot solve the problems. The complexities of the geographical constraints make the task even harder in Europe than in the US and the pace of technological change means that the legislators are always lagging behind," he said. Launching a4ie yesterday, Simon van Otichem, a senior spokesperson for ING, the Dutch financial institution and another founder member of the alliance, said that, if Europeans are serious about e-commerce, they must ensure that Internet users across Europe have a guaranteed level of service which includes speed of delivery, reliability and efficiency. "Only a body such as the a4ie can solve these problems. This alliance will be able to work across European boundaries with governments and regulators, multinational and small businesses, addressing issues relevant to corporate bodies and individual users of the Internet," he said. According to van Otichem, the alliance will aim to overcome the challenges to the Internet posed by a region of nation states comprising different cultures, social and economic conditions and regulatory structures. Other members of the a4ie include CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), Istituto S. Paolo di Torino, Network NorthWest, Siemens OEN, Open Market, Telewest Communications and the University of Utrecht. The alliance's Web site is at a4ie.org , with a mirror site at a4ie.com . o~~~ O

To: jhild who wrote (15565)	5/21/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Greenspan: Asian crisis could still widen Posted at 10:06 a.m. PDT Thursday, May 21, 1998 WASHINGTON (AP) -- While noting some encouraging developments, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said today the Asian financial crisis remains highly volatile with the threat it could spread to other parts of the world. Greenspan and two Clinton administration Cabinet officials, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, also stressed that the U.S. economy had not yet absorbed the full impact of the financial turmoil that struck Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea last year. ''Clearly, those economies are not out of the woods, as recent events attest,'' Greenspan said. Greenspan cautioned that there remained a ''small but not negligible probability that the upset in East Asia could have unexpectedly large negative effects on Japan, Latin America, and eastern and central Europe that, in turn, could have repercussions elsewhere, including the United States.'' He also stressed that there was a lag between the financial meltdown in currency and stock markets and the impact of those adverse developments on the overall world economy. ''The effects of the Asian crisis on the real economies of the immediately affected countries, as well as on our own economy, are only now just being felt,'' he said. Greenspan appeared today with Rubin and Glickman as part of a continuing effort by the administration and the Fed to win approval for $18 billion in additional support for the International Monetary Fund, whose resources have been depleted by the need to organize more than $100 billion in financial bailouts. The funding request has run into heavy opposition in the House, where critics charge the IMF is too secretive and has been too inept in handling the Asian crisis. Greenspan and Rubin acknowledged the complaints, but they argued that the IMF was undertaking reforms. ''We are learning fast and need to update and modify our institutions,'' Greenspan said. ''Meanwhile, we have had to confront the current crisis with the institutions and techniques we have.'' Rubin told the committee that the IMF reform program for Indonesia was ''a creative response to the economic crisis, not a cause.'' The riots that led to Suharto's resignation Wednesday turned violent after Indonesia, under IMF pressure, removed energy subsidies causing fuel prices to jump by 70 percent. ''The IMF program did include difficult measures but implementing difficult measures is always necessary in restoring financial stability,'' Rubin said. Commenting on Asia, Rubin repeated pledges President Clinton made shortly after Suharto's resignation that the United States ''stands ready to support Indonesia as it engages in democratic change.'' Glickman told the panel that Asia's troubles were already starting to take a toll on U.S. farm exports and he predicted a $2 billion drop in agricultural exports this year because of the crisis. ''U.S. sales losses are occurring in almost every product category, especially corn, hides and skins, soybeans, cotton, animal feeds, soybean meal, meats, fruits and vegetables and hardwood lumber,'' Glickman said. ''The reduction in import demand in Asia is also lowering commodity prices around the world, reducing the value of U.S. exports to non-Asian markets.'' The appearance of Greenspan, Rubin and Glickman before the House Agriculture Committee came a day after Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, warned that the chance for House approval of the $18 billion IMF request appeared slim unless lawmakers get more information about how the IMF operates. Armey said he would vote against IMF funding ''if they continue to leave me in the dark'' about what the 182-nation organization does, including providing an internal analysis of how it has handled the Asian crisis. Armey is sponsoring legislation that would shine light on the secretive 53-year-old IMF by making public minutes of its board meetings and establishing an independent review board similar to one that exists at its sister institution, the World Bank. Rubin and other administration officials have made more than a dozen appearances before various House panels to try to persuade lawmakers to vote for the funding measure. The Senate approved the administration's IMF request 84-16 but the House has not. o~~~ O