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To: HG who wrote (19473)	1/30/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: marion (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

<<What will Ford and Volvo being doing at the end of next 10 years ? >> They will still exist. People will still need to drive cars, and the barriers to entry in this business are major. << Presuming it was to remain an industry leader - what will YHOO be doing at the end of next 10 years ?>> I think there is a strong possibility that they wont even exist. You talk about Yahoo like it's some big part of the Internet. It's not. No technology, nothing proprietary, no patents, no significant revenue. It's not the Internet at all. They are simply a company that uses the Internet. Guess what.... Most big companies today do use the Internet, and they are in a position to benefit much more than Yahoo is. Yahoo still does not make significant revenue, and can't seem to find a way to do that, and yet their stock is already valued at more than Motorola or Xerox. The Internet is open. Any company can use it. You keep confusing the Internet with Yahoo. They are one web site in a land of many. A company could easily duplicate Yahoo in a few months and have more users than they do. You could just buy some privately held web sites and add them to a network. Blue Mountain Arts already has half the users that Yahoo has. So why doesn't some big company do this? Because there isn't any money in it. The only place that money has been made is in the stock. Not the actual business. If they actually go ahead with the GeoCities deal, they won't be operating in the black for the next 10 years (if they still exist)