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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (57970)	4/28/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Grove says, ''All companies will be Internet companies or they won't be companies,'' .......''It remains to be seen whether the Internet companies that have essentially infinite access to capital will be able to grow up to be self-sufficient institutions and adjust to a future when money won't be free,'' Grove said. Not that Grove thinks the Internet model of doing business is fundamentally flawed. Far from it. In five years people won't talk about Internet companies because the technology will be a normal part of successful businesses, he predicted. ''All companies will be Internet companies or they won't be companies,'' he quipped. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (57970)	5/1/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

MB, >>How does AOL survive? An interesting question. One of my neighbors was having problems with AOL yesterday and had been trying to get the problem fixed for 7 hours. His password had been zapped. I went over and helped him. It took 1 hour to get a tech support person, then of course he could not help solve the problem so we were moved to another queue for another hour, this person could not solve the problem so we were in another queue for another hour, etc. We did finally get someone who knew what they were doing. It also was taking over 30 minutes to get a connection into the Minneapolis server. The reason AOL is alive is there are a whole lot of over the hill gang that can not operate computers and AOL has made it sufficiently user friendly so these folks can use the email. I live in a community with most of the population over 55 and these folks are all on AOL. Someone is going to figure out how to take this business away one day. I don't know if price will be the motivator, the service must be easy to use and idiot proof. Joan