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To: joe who wrote (20652)	8/17/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 45548

3Com takes offensive in market defense Computer Reseller News - August 17, 1998 San Anselmo, Calif. -- Is 3Com Corp. concerned about Intel Corp. in the small-business networking space? A recent "media alert" sent to CRN from 3Com-following Intel price cuts-indicates that the networking giant is indeed concerned. Among the claims made in the alert: "Intel is losing to 3Com;" "Intel is competing with its last possible weapon: price;" and "Intel has added zero value" to its InBusiness products, which Intel inherited from its acquisition of Dayna Communications last year. It also stated that "no new products have been brought to market since the acquisition." techweb.com o~~~ O

To: joe who wrote (20652)	8/17/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Still No Brakes on Net Growth Wired News Report - 6:35pm 12.Aug.98.PDT The size of the Net may have nearly doubled in the past year, according to the latest tally of machines connected to the global network. The Internet Domain Survey, conducted twice a year by hardware and software development firm Network Wizards, seeks to find and record every online host, or individual machine connected to the Internet. The most recent survey -- done last month and made available online Wednesday -- found 36,739,000 such hosts. In the January 1998 survey, 29,670,000 individual hosts were found. The survey is published each January and July. One year ago, 19,540,000 hosts were counted -- a little more than half of the current number. However, Network Wizards cautions that the methodology has changed slightly from that of all surveys done before January. The company said that comparisons between years should be made with care. The 10 most popular top-level domains in the current survey were, in order, .com, .net, .edu, .mil, .jp, .us, .uk, .de, .ca, and .au. The most popular second-level domain was America Online's aol.com, and the top third-level domain was dialup.ans.net. To find all of the valid hosts, Network Wizards queries the Domain Name System (DNS) -- the protocol and mechanism which translates domain names to their corresponding numeric IP addresses -- to find the name assigned to every IP address. In the survey, a physical computer can count as more than one host. This is due to the practice of "virtual hosting," where one machine has multiple domain names and IP addresses, which has become very popular in recent years. These virtual domains each count as unique hosts in the survey. The Internet Domain Survey is produced by Mark Lottor, a former member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several discussion papers on Internet domain name systems. o~~~ O