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To: joe who wrote (15846)6/4/1998 2:47:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22053
 
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BMW Dominates J.D. Power and Associates Quality Plant Awards

PR Newswire - June 04, 1998 14:05
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WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing a long string of BMW accolades, the latest J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study (IQS2) found the three plants providing the world's best quality for vehicles destined to the US market to all be BMW facilities.

BMW was the first European car company to receive the coveted Platinum Plant Award, with its Dingolfing plant (which builds the 5 and 7 Series sedans) acknowledged as providing the best quality product in the world of plants producing vehicles for the US market. The company also swept the entire European manufacturing category with its Munich and Regensberg plants (which build the 3 Series and M3 products) tied for the Silver Plant Awards.

Of note, the BMW plants recognized by J.D. Power and Associates for providing the best quality products in the world will be producing the company's new 3 Series sport sedan, scheduled to launch in the US late this summer.

"These J.D. Power and Associates awards again affirm BMW's long-standing commitment to providing our customers with the best quality product and ownership experience possible," stated Victor Doolan, president of BMW of North America, Inc. "These accomplishments would not have been possible were it not for the focused efforts of our entire organization. From design and development, to manufacturing on through to our retailer network, all of BMW shares in these awards."

Conducted annually, the J.D. Power and Associates IQS2 study monitors the number of problems new-vehicle owners experience in the first three months of ownership. The study is the industry quality standard in ranking current-year models based on problems per 100 vehicles covering 135 specific problem areas over nine vehicle sections. The 1998 study reports responses from more than 58,000 owners of 1998 model-year vehicles. The IQS plant awards are based on vehicles built throughout the world and for sale in the United States.

BMW of North America, Inc. was established in 1975, at which point the company assumed marketing and distribution responsibilities of BMW automobiles in the U.S. from the previous private distributor. Motorcycle marketing and distribution was added in 1980. Since then the company's North American operations have grown to include marketing, sales and financial services organizations in the United States and Canada; a South Carolina manufacturing operation; a design firm in California; and various other operations throughout the U.S. and Canada. BMW is represented in North America through a network of more than 375 automobile and 190 motorcycle retailers in the United States and Canada. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the brand's North American headquarters, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

Information about BMW products is available to consumers via the World Wide Web on the BMW homepage. The address is: bmwusa.com.

SOURCE BMW of North America, Inc.

/NOTE TO EDITORS: This and all press materials are available from the
"Interactive News Bureau" at the BMW website. You can reach it by clicking
"Contact BMW" from the main menu. ( bmwusa.com )/
/CONTACT: Robert D. Mitchell, Product Information Manager of BMW of North
America, 201-307-3790/
/Web site: bmwusa.com



To: joe who wrote (15846)6/7/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Moonray  Respond to of 22053
 
3COM CMPnet weekly reading:

Large Switch Vendors Take Extreme Hit : 0.78
VAR Business, June 08, 1998
While the race was close in the VAR program segment of
this month's VARBusiness Labs review on switches,
Extreme Networks slipped past the competition (see page 90).
Although the Cupertino, Calif.-based company was matched up
against the li

Switching To A Better Bottom Line -- Improve Network Performance
And Increase Your Profits With New Layer 3 Switches : 0.97
VAR Business, June 08, 1998
Switches speed up clients' networks, so they provide a great
solution for the reseller or systems integrator upgrading an
existing client network to provide better performance.

Raising The Speed Limit -- Network switches promise faster
performance for less, but are they delivering? : 0.80
VAR Business, June 08, 1998
Is faster always better? And is faster even better when it's cheaper? In the world of network switching, the answers are "yes" and "yes."
In a relatively uncomplicated well-designed network, switches deliver
better performance. But how many

NIC At Nite -- Start-up NIC Express improves 'round-the-clock
network availability : 0.82
VAR Business, June 08, 1998
When 3Com Corp. proposed a network interface card (NIC) or edge solution to the problem of network availability, many of its
competitors cried foul. They denounced it as an expedient and
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News Nuggets : 0.78
VAR Business, June 08, 1998
- Longtime channel champion Fred L. Tufts, IBM Corp.'s vice president,
channel strategy and management, has been named vice president, global
channel management. In his new assignment, Tufts will be responsible for rolling out the worldwide

ATM Network Takes Patient Care To Next Level : 0.84
Internet Week, June 08, 1998
It's not yet a broadly accepted prescription for IT managers' network
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multimedia applications.

New wireless phones merge PC, PDA and voice functions : 0.78
Internet Week, June 08, 1998
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offer an integrated package of paging, e-mail, Web browsing and other
data capabilities along with voice service.

Dataflow : 0.78
Internet Week, June 08, 1998
A group of leading computer and communications companies last month
unveiled a new wireless technology that is designed to make data
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Act! Gets Upgrade -- PIM Is Useful, But Big Changes Are Few : 0.80
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If you're not using a personal information manager to maintain your
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Stream Of Consciousness -- Companies turn to streaming media for
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Information Week, June 08, 1998
Darlene Wolford, manager of the best practices replication process for
Ford Motor Co., wanted to disseminate information about the automaker's
best practices throughout the company. That meant conquering the twin
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Tivoli And IBM -- Though Tivoli management
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Information Week, June 08, 1998
Tivoli Systems' two-year-old relationship with parent company IBM is
evolving from an arms-length business deal into a productive
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Backbone switches rise with bandwidths : 0.78
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They Want You -- Lucent's Secret Weapons : 0.78
Computer Reseller News, June 08, 1998
Boston -- Lucent Technologies Inc. has little experience selling data
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Concord Measures Networks' Health : 0.78
Computer Reseller News, June 08, 1998
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New Markets: India, Middle East -- CHS Continues To Spend, Spend,
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Computer Reseller News, June 08, 1998
Miami -- CHS Electronics Inc. is still mum on any plans to enter the
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Compaq To Outline Plans For Digital : 0.78
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