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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (22566)	10/7/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Thanks for the link. >>What busines are you in that causes such giga data xmissions?<< I'm a scientific programmer. I work with huge quantities of satellite data on the environment. This data is used by many scientists all over the world so they can do research in their respective fields. I mainly maintain a huge database of satellite data. I also work with images a lot. So all the data objects are huge, and I swap them back and forth from lots of different places. I'm sure that banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, etc. are all maintaining bigger and bigger databases. Some companies may have up to a terabyte of data which it shares with hundreds of its business branchs all over the world. Companies are in desperate need of better ways to pump big huge database information to each other. The companies that can do this will be able to create many new products, reduce costs, and stay above the competition. Any company that's information intensive, and not already being tied to the internet is a "dead" company, IMO.