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To: Mighty Mizzou who wrote (7390)	4/15/1999 9:52:00 PM
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If any companies are to come out of the Internet economy unscathed it is those that have built the net -- Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - news), Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU - news) and others whose customers are online businesses, analysts said. ''The infrastructure companies are continuing to benefit from very strong growth in electronic commerce,'' Dain Rauscher Wessels' Stephen Sigmond said in a telephone interview, in contrast to Web retailers, who may face difficulties matching their holiday-fueled fourth quarter reports. ''There doesn't appear much of a seasonal downtrend in the first quarter,'' he said. Late Thursday, for example, Inktomi, a provider of Web directory software, reported fiscal second quarter revenues up 323 percent. But its net loss declined only slightly to $4.6 million from $4.8 million, amid aggressive expansion plans. Analysts said intranets and extranets - networks inside a company and those that link it with partners - are experiencing tremendous growth. And as online commerce heats up, companies are looking for products that channel Internet customers to their sites and keep them there.....