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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: drakes353 who wrote (30642)	2/1/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

Drakes - - 1) If it can be shown to provide savings and a potential for improved productivity it's a great deal. Sure - not everyone needs it but you'd be surprised just how many could use it. We had another auditor in from E&Y today and she tied up the jack in her room for her PC link to their LAN. It sure interrupted her work whenever they called with a message and someone had to transfer the call to our floor and have one of us go get her - not to mention the time their main office spent on hold. As far as savings we explored all the options and BT came out as the clear winner with an approximate $6,900/month savings to the company just by implementing it at the home and three outer offices. I'll bet you're going to see me using it from home pretty soon. 2) All of corporate America does not reside in NYC, LA, Dallas or Denver. It may surprise you but the bulk of the GNP comes from the center of the country and a lot of the workers prefer to live in "the country" where they may or may not have cable but in most cases if they do it's from a small cable company that is nowhere near having the funds to upgrade to the point that cable modems can be used. I've commented on this before - I can't get one yet and I live in a pretty affluent neighborhood. In actuality out of the ~900K people that comprise this metroplex I think only about 1/3 of them can get one and there's no additional phone lines offered at all. 3) Additional phone lines. We're certainly out of pairs in my neighborhood and the last time my modem line went noisy they had to route the thing all over the place just to get me back online. I commented that I hoped this one would hold up and the Bell guy said "I hope so too as there aren't any pairs left." All the wiring around here is buried and I doubt they're going to dig up everyone's yards anytime soon. Another example is my friend that works for Seagate. He made the move to the country a while back - better schools for the kids and a far more relaxed environment. If I recall he had to pay around $6,000 just to get his one phone line run in. He had to have a true line as cell phones won't transmit data worth a darn and he likes to do a few hours of design work in the evenings. Even if a cell phone would work I somehow doubt that Seagate would allow him to use one when connected to their LAN. 4) Tunneling VPN technology only applies to dial-in connections, when you're on a cable modem it's an entirely different story.