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To: Hal Campbell who wrote (3201)	8/7/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 17679

the issue of intelligent agents is perhaps at issue, as is cache storage ability, the major feature associated with INKTOMI. as to speed, i am amazed by the INFERENCE FIND and its capacity and efficiency... add to speed the invaluable prudence factor; how many [in particular) inktomi searches, and others litter search results with completely irrelevant garbage. and it takes time to look for the throwaways, too.... webhosts....willl check out the backbones.

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (3201)	8/7/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: Ed Perry	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

<< What hardware does a web hosting company utilize?>> Not as involved as one would think. Basically a mid ranged Sun Sparc for about $70K with Solaris 2.6 (already webized and tuned for web activity). The Web Server App would probably be Apache (which believe or not is freeware and has about 60% of extranet web sites). In my opinion, the real advantage to setting up a "Web Hosting Service" with digitized video featured and say access limited to ISDN would be in the proof of concept value. By being first with the implemented technology provides a tremendous advantage in mind share and in hypeability. The bleeding edge also give you the chance to solve the problems first (wow). Even if the technology is ahead of mass consumption application, it would not preclude it's implementation in adaptations to commercial training, product information dissemination. This is the traditional route for product / service rollout. First commercial usage by a gorilla then adaptation to a commoditized use for the mass market. Whoever gets there first has enormous market advantage (per A. Grove and J. Moore). The important thing is to get the product working in some context. Still other innovators will partner unforseen adaptations - if you work with them. Ed Perry