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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (52593)	7/20/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: stephen wall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

jng_in_kc, Bingo! It's a war for the eyeball and training that eyeball into habitual patterns. Pavlovian. The hardware guys have first eyeball followed by operating systems, browsers, ISP's, hosts, portals, etc. I think Dell would be VERY selective in what they do, but from this news release they obviously see an opportunity here and Mikey rarely misses the big one. stephen

To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (52593)	7/20/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: James Curry	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Remember that the majority of Dell's market is government, institutions, corporations, and universities. These people don't want their computers to automatically point to k-mart. Portals won't work in the long run. As more and more people get online, and then become more sophisticated about being online, they will realize that they don't need portals--if they haven't already--and will begin jumping wherever they want to go. Emalls were tried, and failed. Sites that specialize will do better.