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To: lostmymoney who wrote (12555)	1/12/1999 7:41:00 AM
From: lostmymoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29382

AHWY has news out and BAMM will catch. The warrants for AHWYW match the stock. Ken, people still talking about PQT. Maybe another up day, people are starting to try and hold for the BIGGG money. Myself I am going to get my little planned profit and hold some of the rest. That trying to hold on just one more hour, or day, or week, for a little more, has killed me in the past. I do not want to solve my headaches with a hammer to the head anymore! This needs read again, Examples of electronic commerce cost savings Web-based order management - Using a supplier's Web site, customers can place orders and view inventory availability and order and shipment status. Early implementers of Web-based order management applications report that the cost of processing orders can be reduced from $8 to $25 per order to the 3 cents to $1 range. Billing - Approximately five percent of U.S. households (5.16 million) will be viewing and paying their bills electronically by 2000. Estimating that each household pays 10-12 bills a month, between 619.2 and 743 million bills will be presented and paid electronically in 2000 alone. As customers move to online billing, billers can reduce bill printing, envelope stuffing, postage and remittance processing costs. However, most billers that are implementing electronic bill presentment and payment are doing so to enhance their relationships with their customers, not to reduce their costs. Customer service - Web-based customer service applications -- especially those that are high performance, easy-to-use and integrated with existing business systems, such as inventory and order fulfillment - will provide cost savings over time. In the first year of offering customer service online, companies should expect to see no savings or even an increase in costs because most companies will be running dual phone-based and Web-based customer service operations, and customer service representatives will take on technical support roles. In the second year of operation, many companies will break even on their investment as customers begin to move online from telephone-based customer service. In the third year, companies may realize 10-40 percent savings in customer service expenditures. ''While most Internet commerce ventures will not be profitable in the near term, embracing electronic commerce is imperative,'' said Rugullies. ''The relationship building and cost cutting achieved in the early stages of electronic commerce will result in an improved bottom line and may eventually increase revenue through customer retention and loyalty.'' and from PCQuote, Continued growth in page views, increasingly attractive demographics and the subsequent increase in advertising revenue led to the firm's decision to segregate the website into its own business unit. "Our website has grown in size and popularity to such a point that it is a sustainable business in its own right. As a distinct business unit, PC Quote.com may be able to raise financing for the Internet business separately from the market data business," stated Jim R. Porter, PC Quote Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "It will also afford PC Quote.com more flexibility in considering opportunities that are available solely to the Internet website business." Mike

To: lostmymoney who wrote (12555)	1/12/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: MoneyMade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29382

CNKT---2.8M Float moving back up!!ConnectInc.com Teams With IBM to Create Electronic Commerce Solution MarketStream E-Commerce Application Incorporates IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Performance Pack and IBM MQSeries MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectInc.com (Nasdaq: CNKT - news) today announced an initiative with IBM to offer its leading, OBI-enabled, e-commerce application, MarketStream, using IBM's high-performance WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition and WebSphere Performance Pack* and integrating IBM MQSeries*. The solution will be available in the first quarter of 1999. ConnectInc.com, a member of IBM's Solution Developer Program, also will be offering both OrderStream, an application for business to consumer electronic commerce and PurchaseStream, an application for business to business electronic commerce for the WebSphere product family and MQSeries as upgrades for existing customers. MarketStream is a powerful, flexible electronic commerce application that provides a broad technology foundation for the virtual marketplace. MarketStream includes support for integrated, cross-supplier catalog search, product-specific attributes, tiered or customized pricing, buyer profiling and personalization, back-end system integration and robust reporting capabilities. Unlike most buy or sell-side applications which focus on only a portion of the business, MarketStream's comprehensive scope of functionality greatly reduces the technical effort required to build a customized application to support a major vertical market. ''Best of breed e-commerce solutions are highly scalable, and must be optimized to run in the new cross-platform, high transaction volume environments of ''.com'' companies,'' said Craig Norris, president and CEO of ConnectInc.com. ''We are convinced this new relationship will help ConnectInc.com expand its presence among the thousands of global companies serious about building mission-critical e-business solutions around open standards.'' ''The integration of MarketStream with the IBM WebSphere products and MQSeries will result in an e-commerce solution that can fit the needs of a variety of businesses,'' said Steve Solazzo, vice president, Solution Developers and Small/Growing Businesses for IBM Software Group. ''This initiative will produce an application that will help bring sellers and buyers together in one comprehensive, online distribution location.'' WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition provides companies with an open, multi-platform, standards-based, Web server deployment platform and Web site management tools. It offers customers a solution to deploy e-business Web sites across a range of operating systems platforms including AIX, Windows NT*, Sun Solaris**, OS/400, OS/390 and OS/2 Warp Server. WebSphere Performance Pack is a unique combination of caching, proxy and filtering functions; file content management and replication; and load balancing in a single Internet hosting infrastructure. IBM MQSeries, the most widely used message-queuing software on the market, enables users to exchange information between applications across more than 35 different platforms, from mainframes to PCs. This award-winning software enables business integration throughout the enterprise, allowing companies to maximize e-business opportunities by leveraging existing resources to improve speed-to-market and anticipate IT changes as their business changes. Under the terms of the agreement, ConnectInc.com has made a significant commitment to IBM Software and WebSphere. IBM will provide support for marketing and development to assist ConnectInc.com in successfully incorporating IBM's WebSphere with MarketStream and reaching its marketing objectives for IBM Websphere. About ConnectInc.com ConnectInc.com, formerly known as Connect, Inc., provides solutions and services to enable Internet-based electronic commerce, and build ''connected corporations'' from any link in the digital value chain. ConnectInc.com's technologies and service are optimized for today's multi-vendor, e-business solutions, and allow companies to compete effectively in the digital economy. ConnectInc.com is a member of the IBM Solution Developer Program. Indicates trademark or registered trademark of ConnectInc.com. Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Lotus, Lotus Notes, and Lotusphere are registered trademarks and Notes Global Designer, Domino, and Notes are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. Indicates trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Indicates trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies. SOURCE: Connectinc.com