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Microcap & Penny Stocks : INNI-I/NET -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thomas a. burke who wrote (81)	6/1/1998 12:20:00 AM
From: Yongzhi Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1856

Tom B, Thanks for your comment. As for your question: >If I understand correctly, INNI has had a relationship with IBM for over 2 years, >yet has not really profited from this relationship, could anyone explain why? If I remembered my conversation with Mr. Markee, (President and CEO of I/NET) correctly, he acknowledged that WEBSERVER/400, MERCHANT/400, COMMERCE/400, and WEBSERVER/400 sales have been slow until recently. He thinks the reasons is that people are slow to accept new things. After a little bit research, I believe that there are more fundamental reasons for the slow sales of Webserver/400, etc. in the past. (1) People tend to choose Netscape or MicroSoft web server products. I evaluated some other web server products myself but I end up choosing Netscape or MicroSoft products every time. I chose Netscape server on UNIX machines such as SUN and IBM/RISC600 and chose MiscroSoft's IIS on NT machine. (2) There were issues that sometimes prevented people from choosing IBM AS/400 as web server (or buying AS/400 at all). These issues include: (see iws.as400.ibm.com or go to as400.ibm.com and click on "What is AS/400" and then click on "Read the report." ) (a) Top-end capacity. (b) Hardware cost. (c) Application portability. (d) Entry price. (e) Internet capability. The industry-leading Internet servers from Netscape, Microsoft, and Lotus were not offered on AS/400. The problem (1) will be solved when I/NET releases Netscape SuiteSpot server products for AS/400 at the end of July. All issues in problem (2) have been addressed with the release of the new IBM AS/400e series. Note that (2)-(e) is where I/NET comes in. I am looking forward for the end of July. yongzhi