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To: jean who wrote (10195)	9/4/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Here's what I find interesting in that Fort Bliss link: "Mellon Bank personnel moved in with a solution. They began with terminal reading and writing hardware by Verifone. Software for the stored value application and back-office operations was supplied by Product Technologies, Inc. The hardware used to capture fingerprints and mathematically process and compare them was provided by Identicator. The computer servers were made by Compaq . . . ." Here is the first Identicator/Compaq connection. By the way, I don't believe Fowler if he is saying IDX never spoke to Compaq. My best guess is that IDX just didn't have a cheap enough product for Compaq, either in Fort Bliss or in the computer security arena. The Identicator package is minutiae-based, and its readers are probably not forensic quality like the IDX one-finger, minutiae-based Touchview. Further, the public domain minutiae systems are surely less expensive than IDX proprietary pattern recognition. All in all, Compaq gets less from Identicator for less money, but at this stage, at least, Compaq doesn't need more, and probably has gone for the lowest price point market entry they can put together.