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To: Kurthend who wrote (4574)	1/2/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Straight Up	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Kurt IMO I believe that Portico will spread as quickly as the cell phone. I for one could remember saying "I'll never need a cellular phone" now I say "Oh my goodness, my phone, where did I put my phone (in great panic)" as though if I didn't have my cell phone I couldn't exist. I am only guessing, and in NO WAY consider this a rumor, that a Tel Co will purchase GMGC and fund the Portico product. For one of the baby bells Portico is the next step to increasing revenues. Another note, each time I check out the employment opps for GMGC the list gets longer and longer. I DO NOT take this as a sign of a company that will run out of funds. The only fact I have is I am an investor who promised myself never to fall in love with a company, but I did. I really believe that managed correctly, which I believe Markman can do, GMGC has a great future. Straight Up

To: Kurthend who wrote (4574)	1/3/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

More information on the Alpha Micro or AlphaCONNECT relationship to General Magic. Sure seems like these systems are more connected than I had imagined. When GM talks about connecting to the corporate data base, or gathering special information for quicken, I wonder how dependent they are on this software? It begins to look like a key partnership that I had imagined. alphaconnect.com If they could buy the software division of this company, that would make much more sense than the Netphonics purchase, at least on the surface. But again, this in not a company dependent on a VUI. They format a lot of data for a typical GUI environment. It must be no small feat getting the data into a VUI format, but it looks like a very powerful combination. Regards, Mark