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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (43969)	3/4/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>> A lot of money has been sppent in creating a brand for a very small section of the population<< Glenn, the amount of people shopping on the Internet is, remarkably small. Why?? because unlike Michelle. Would you believe they're shopping @ Wal-Mart??? Ps The reason we have to respect the Wall-Mart shopper's is, because there's more of them, than us. Yes! Other than William. You can trust me on that.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (43969)	3/5/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: Tom Kearney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn - Here's a partial roster of early leaders: Oracle - 1st functional relational database: today has essentially no competition in its main product line (though some is one the way, maybe) MSFT - Bill Gates dropped out of college to work on the the VERY 1st PC, a piece of junk whose output consisted 16 lights that could blink on and off!!! INTC - co-inventor of the integrated circuit; TI the other co-inventor was too enamored of their military profits ('a la Walmart?) to put much effort into the product early on Apple - You would have made a lot of money with Apple for 10 years: the 1st quality home computer Lotus - 1st great PC software product - a money machine for years But the best is Ashton-Tate - a lousy database, but because they were 1st, they had to be bad for 8 years before anyone could catch them