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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (4173)	3/9/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 4679

Home networks? Just another dirt-cheap commodity that will probably start to ship with home PCs. Another opportunity to stuff a circuit board and stencil on the Diamond name. In terms of the distribution channel penetration and name recognition, those are definite assets.

To: Hiram Walker who wrote (4173)	3/9/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

More than anything else, DIMD is a marketing company. It has name recognition among customers, both retail & OEM, & among suppliers in important channels of distributions. Labeling a company today as a "technology company" provides little if any assistance in defining how the market may value the company. Hi-tech today must be sub-categorized today into categories such as networks, desktops, applications,infrastructure, etc. The boundaries of technology companies have also blurred along the networking front with communications be they cable, telecom, or wireless. PC manufacturers have been migrating to networked-based computing with the introduction of workstations product lines & toward Internet-based computing with the introduction of thin-clients, & in the future, Internet applicances. In addition, the home PC market is leading to home-based networking. DIMD is well positioned to serve both these newly emerging markets. The big question is whether they can deliver an acceptable level of profitability that they have failed to delivered in recent years. JMO.