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To: AugustWest who wrote (5028)	6/10/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: g_m10	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

I don't think we should consider JM departure as a "brain drain". edocs is a start-up company. edocs closed its first round of venture capital financing .... It needs people with specific skills and Jim Moran is one of them. He was a key member of the management team that led CheckFree through dramatic growth over the past four years. CF is out of this period. New tasks require new skills and make old skills obsolete. This is probably why they hired Limbert who spent 20 years with Banc One. Just MHO.

To: AugustWest who wrote (5028)	6/10/1998 7:47:00 AM
From: Benny Baga	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

Same story different spin (At&T): June 10, 1998 BASKING RIDGE, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., Newsbytes via NewsEdge Corporation : AT& T [NYSE:T] residential telecommunications customers will be able to view and pay their communications bills via the Internet, after Ma Bell signed a deal with e-commerce software concern CheckFree [NASDAQ:CKFR]. AT&T will use CheckFree's E-Bill software product which enables fully integrated electronic billing and payment, officials said. With E-Bill, AT&T customers will be able to review and pay their communications at both AT&T's Web site and at any of the hundreds of online financial institutions supported by CheckFree, including Bank One, Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo. In addition, AT&T customers will be able to manage their bills using Quicken 98 for Windows software, which is also supported by CheckFree. AT&T will not charge for the electronic bill payment service, although individual financial institutions might themselves charge for the service. AT&T will implement the first phase of the agreement in the third quarter of this year, which will initially benefit AT&T customers who use Ma Bell's World Wide Web site, officials said. Later this year, customers who use CheckFree- supported Web sites will be able to use the service. AT&T's deal with CheckFree is similar to ones his company recently signed with major "portal" Web sites like Excite and Yahoo to market telecom services, in that AT&T is aiming for "ubiquity," AT&T spokesperson Jonathan Varman said. "This is another layer of customer service that we can offer through a variety of locations on the Internet, " he said. In addition, an AT&T customer does not have to use AT&T's WorldNet Internet service provider (ISP) service to view and pay bills, Varman added. CheckFree will provide the back-office systems and technical components for the service, including Year 2000 compliance and back-up services for disaster recovery.