Boardwatch May/June Issue

Jordan Mendelson (jordy@snappy.wserv.com)
Mon, 19 May 1997 15:43:52 -0400 (EDT)

I was reading through the ISP Bimonthly directory and came across
something very interesting. The editor's introduction mentions that "One
vendor claimed 300 ISPs had "signed up" to support its technology and was
rather widely disseminating this via press release". Now, my guess is that
they were referring to Livingston as they said they mailed the people who
were supporting this vendor and I did get a message from them a while
back.

They claimed they counted each of these and came up with the number 223,
not 300 and they claimed to have called some of these which most responded
that they were "unaware" of such a change.

Now, the people who have signed up on your webpage to swap out their cards
WILL be supporting K56flex, so I'm sort of baffled by the numbers they
gave for percentages of support.

US Robotics 524 79.88 percent
Rockwell K56flex 146 22.25 percent
Lucent K56flex 62 9.45 percent

Now, even if there were only 200 or so listed that will do the upgrade, we
would still be listed higher than Rockwell's listing.

So I'm confused about this. It's not the first time Boardwatch has screwed
up royally when it comes to the Internet, but I want to know if it's
really a mistake.

Jordan

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