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To: Jody Ritchie who wrote (4502)	4/13/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: Benny Baga	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

>>>Doesn't the bills.com site provide direct competition with mybills.com? Not if checkfree is the backend for both (I assume). I would have to guess Checkfree is in the loop, in addition, since CheckFree can't launch their own portal (banks would go nuts), checkfree is willing to be the backend for anyone and everyone. Benny

To: Jody Ritchie who wrote (4502)	4/13/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: zuma_rk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

My two cents worth: My guess is that CF doesn't want (or need) to be in the Bill-Portal business. mybills.com probably only exists as an intermediate necessity until the banks/portals/brokerages get their acts together and lure folks back to the sites of their "trusted financial (or non-financial, in the case of portals) institutions." mybills is for folks like you and me who are the early adopters, who, right or wrong, want to try every new internet doohicky that can make their lives easier... Anyone check out the bills.com site? Pretty spare, if you ask me. I guess that first we had vaporware, and now we have vaporsites. However positive their intentions are, these guys are simply gunning for the marquee value of being the first bill portal to market, and locking up the valuable "bills.com" site address... The really good news, IMO, is that the "real" portal announcements can't be too far behind....... RK