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To: blankmind who wrote (19019)	7/12/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

>>portland and bay is not confusing, you need to understand how to use them. i will give you an example. the other day when coms had 12 million shares. some novice at a large mutual fund thought the head guy said to buy lots of coms. well, he meant com, not coms. he wanted lots of com, unfortunately not the plural. << huuhh?? I am still confused<gg> >>good luck in learning the parts of the country and how they are referred to as you leave the third world areas.<< HEY! I'm 30minutes away from knocking on big Bill C.'s house. You should have more respect for your leaders<g>

To: blankmind who wrote (19019)	7/12/1998 2:59:00 AM
From: joe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 45548

Below is a clipping from a daily news item from informationweek.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORIES ___Lucent Buys Intelligent-Switch Company____ Lucent Technologies continued its buying spree and fleshed out its networking line with a $117 million cash acquisition of intelligent-switch-maker LANNET. LANNET, a subsidiary of Madge Networks N.V., will pull Lucent into the intelligent LAN switch business, a market that Lucent says is growing 20% a year. "As we integrate more of our customers' complete networks, they're increasingly looking for an offering that reaches from the desktop to the WAN," says Bill O'Shea, president of Lucent's Data Networking Systems group. LANNET, with customers such as Airobus, BMW, and Peugot, will also give Lucent inroads to the European market. "It's a market that we believe is going to be one of the fastest- growing markets in data networking," O'Shea says, adding that European companies are migrating from hub and router systems to switched networks. Lucent says there is little overlap between its products and LANNET's, which will fill the gaps in Lucent's low-end product line. Although Lucent plans to make additional network acquisitions, LANNET's products, which target the workgroup environment, are "as close to the desktop" as Lucent will get. The 500-person switching company will remain in its home base of Tel Aviv, Israel, as part of Lucent's Enterprise Infrastructure Products Group. Its CEO, Shmuel Levy, will join Lucent as president of the EIPG Israel Technology Center. LANNET is the latest in a string of Lucent networking acquisitions; these include remote-access vendor Livingston Enterprises, Gigabit Ethernet company Prominet, and network-access equipment manufacturer Yurie Systems. -- Jeff Sweat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LANNET is in 3Com's playground. If 3Com has such "low-margin products" I wonder why LUCENT feels it needs to be in this network data space?