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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SlateColt who wrote (4865)	12/29/1998 2:43:00 AM
From: Marty Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11417

A response from Compaq. "....Marty, This message confirms that you have been added to the MilliCent interest distribution list. It is not an automatic listserve, it is just an informal distribution list that I maintain. Drop me a line if you have questions about MilliCent. - Russ - russ.jones@compaq.com ........" Well, at least another door's open. I wonder if Russ knows Vern? What shall we ask Russ? Give me some feed back here. Or play dumb and send him a few "diplomatic," questions yourselves. You'll be helping Mr. Jones out. His informal job security might just depend on people like us. Compaq is licensing out MilliCent. WaveSystems is "giving away the razor and selling the blades;" apportioning the revenue generated by transactions to participating partners after taking OUR "cut." According to the people at Compaq: "MilliCent provides the infrastructure for new, innovative ways to share corporate resources and conduct business on the Web. It is the ONLY microcommerce system with virtually no computational overhead, resulting in financially economical purchases as low as one-tenth of a cent." That "only" seems false. More probably, MilliCent is a bad brain storm hoping to god that Wave Systems' microprocessor will just go away. Is our Wave Chip waiting on the “Last Mile," "last couple hundred meters," whatever? Not entirely. However, when the fiber-optic line finally does transverse this largely contrived boundary, our WaveMeter will be happy to welcome it home. MilliCent is another SERVER-SIDE solution. It requires the apparently added cost of buying “coupons” from a “broker” no less, who buys them from who knows whom… Wave Systems' WaveMeter is a CLIENT-SIDE solution which uses SERVER capacity with GREATER efficiency than MilliCent! The Wave SYSTEM ON A CHIP provides a cryptographic module for greater client-side security and localizes transaction data on the consumer's/publisher's desktop. Having read the Compaq spew on MilliCent, we're impressed with the way Compaq intends to use its clout to crown its one-and-only child King and foist him on the e-consumer. Wouldn't content providers and consumers prefer Wave Systems' WaveMeter as it is the ONLY MULTICHANNEL, MICROCOMMERCE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH VIRTUALLY NO COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEAD AND OFFERING A REVENUE SHARING PACT WITH PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONTENT SUPPLY CHAIN? (Except for maybe crummy Compaq computers) On the flip side... Shouldn't we be asking Steven Sprague what he thinks of MilliCent? Oh well, We'll see, Marty