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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1614)	10/19/1998 7:22:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

Frank: Thx, there's no way in -sheol- I can top that!! <ggg> EOM

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1614)	10/19/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 3178

Frank - Thank you for that explanation of "call centers". I guess I had a general idea of what they are. When I call Dell for tech support, I am never able to talk to a live person because they seem to have designed their call center to prevent that from happening. You mention computer-telephony integration (CIT) technologies. My general sense is that Microsoft, with its NT Server, is ahead of Novell and NDS in CIT. This may be why Cisco and Nortel have so made no committment to support NDS. Today, Lucent announced its decision to integrate NDS into its routing platform. I do not have a sense of whether Nortel, Lucent or Cisco is ahead in CIT or, indeed, whether any of them has a signficant advantage. I suspect, without any hard evidence, that Microsoft is working with Nortel to develop CIT for integration in NT Server. They claim that Microsoft is only helping Nortel to sell the one meg modem but I suspect the relationship is deeper than that. If Microsoft thinks that Nortel has the lead in call center technology, they would want Nortel's help in porting that technology to NT Server. On the other hand, Lucent is helping Novell compete with Microsoft. All of this, of course, is just my speculation. Regards, Ken

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1614)	10/20/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Did you see this yet Frank? A great loss for us and the industry. "Father Of The Internet" Jonathan Postel Dead At 55 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jonathan Postel, one of a handful of people who 30 years ago built the global computer network that is today's Internet, has died at the age of 55. Friends and colleagues of Postel said he died in a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital over the weekend from complications following surgery on a leaking heart valve. Postel, who was often called ''the father of the Internet,'' began his work linking computers back in the 1960s when he was a graduate student at the University of California at Los Angeles. As the Internet grew in recent years, he was instrumental in managing many of the increasingly complex technical details that helped keep online communications running relatively smoothly. He served as director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and developed a complex number and naming system that matched popular Internet addresses with numerical addresses computers could read. The system effectively instructed computers where to route traffic and gave Internet users an easy way to log on to different Web sites. To non-technical people, Postal's work may have seemed mundane, but it was his attention to all the finer details of routing information through cyberspace that helped fuel the phenomenal growth of the network in recent years. Although when he began his work the Internet was a little- known network used mainly by academic types, he helped steer its evolution into a popular consumer device that was easy for almost anyone to use, even when they had little understanding of computers. ''Jon Postel was an important historical figure in the development of the Internet,'' one of his colleagues, Network Solutions Inc. (NSOL - news) Chief Executive Officer Gabe Battista, said in a statement. ''His work over the past decades played a significant part in the worldwide growth and development of the Internet as we know it today,'' he said. Postel remained active in Internet policy matters up until his hospitalization. As recently as a few weeks ago, he had submitted a plan to the Clinton administration for a new worldwide Internet address system.