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To: Jason Yantz who wrote (30824)	8/12/1998 6:44:00 AM
From: Pakman2000	Respond to of 97611

Dataquest Sees Huge European PC, Net Growth (08/11/98; 5:01 p.m. ET) By Staff, Semiconductor Business News EGHAM, England -- Although Europe has been slow to embrace the Internet, that is beginning to change, according to Dataquest, a research company in San Jose, Calif. As a result, the potential for sales of PCs on the continent is considerable. The market researcher sees the European Internet market growing from 13.3 million computers connected to the Internet last year to 69 million computers in 2002. It said it projects the market will grow 60 percent in 1998, with 21.2 million Internet seats. The consumer segment led the market, with more than 7 million computers connected to the Internet in 1997, followed by the business sector with 6.2 million. This trend will change by the year 2000, however, when the business market is estimated to have 22.8 million Internet seats, passing the consumer market's 21.8 million Internet seats. "As telecommunications deregulation begins to show its impact in Europe, prices for higher-speed access such as leased lines will decrease, and some medium-sized companies that today can't afford leased-line access will switch over," said Petra Gartzen, senior industry analyst for Dataquest's Internet and Enterprise Strategies Europe program here in Britain. "Once a company has leased-line access, a much larger number of employees can be given Internet access." Germany led all countries in the region with 4.7 million Internet seats in 1997, followed by the United Kingdom and France with 2 million and 1 million Internet seats, respectively. These three countries will continue to account for more than half of all Internet seats in Europe through 2002. But France is projected to post the strongest growth among the top three countries, reaching 10.1 million Internet seats by 2002. "France was slow to start in Internet adoption because France Telecom was slow to enter the Internet market and because Minitel, France Telecom's proprietary online service, was so popular," said Gartzen. "France Telecom is now a driving force in the French Internet market, and recent growth figures show a big increase in interest in the Internet in both the business and consumer sectors."

To: Jason Yantz who wrote (30824)	8/12/1998 7:26:00 AM
From: Richie	Respond to of 97611

***OT**** Your pretty heavy into technology..... the key is DIVERSIFICATION! One area that has been beaten up particularly bad.... is the Oil Services sector....... check out HAL or SBL.....especially HAL.... a tough cold winter could bring oil back into demand and send these stocks roaring back. RichieH

To: Jason Yantz who wrote (30824)	8/12/1998 7:42:00 AM
From: Kelvin D. Nakamichi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

At 38, I hope I'm old enough to qualify. Here's a report about a possible 'next' CISCO. Link: equityanalysis.com And it's priced in Canadian dollars which these days are worth about a nickel $US <g>.

To: Jason Yantz who wrote (30824)	8/12/1998 7:54:00 AM
From: don kramer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Don't look back ! Look forward ! opinion my own, sell wcom, and cisco, buy Philip Morris it is the stellar star, about to go NOVA. remember, you heard it hear first ! Hold CPQ . Sell Out of money call options on CPQ. IMHO, dk

To: Jason Yantz who wrote (30824)	8/12/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Jason - can any of you tell me what you would have done differently in your beginning investing years In my case, I think I was too conservative. When I was younger, and had a lot less in the way of personal obligations, I could have easily survived a major hit on my portfilio, so my risk profile was a lot lower. None the less, I held a lot of 'safe' stocks and only a small percentage of 'risky' tech stocks. It wasn't until the late 80's, when I was in my late 30's-early 40's and had been investing for about 10 years, that I began putting serious money into the techs. Even though I lost big on a couple of stocks with that strategy, the winners (MSFT, Intel, CPQ, a few others) more than made up for the losers. If I had done that even 5 years earlier I think I would be a much wealthier man. Of course at that time we did not have anything like the access to information that a forum like SI gives us, and it was a lot more of a crap-shoot to determine what was likely to happen.