Re: Boardwatch May/June Issue

Marty Likier (marty@livingston.com)
Mon, 19 May 1997 15:21:11 -0700

At 03:31 PM 5/19/97 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
>On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
>
>> 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
> ...
>> 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
>
>Laugh.. for one thing they shouldn't be counting Rockwell and Lucent
>seperately - it would be K56Plus and V.Flex2 if they were. And these are
>only from ISPs that are listed in their directory right?

I talked with Jack Rickard (BoardWatch) about this very issue. Last time I
looked, Livingston had over 600 ISPs signed up to receive the free K56flex
upgrade. Almost all of the 600 registered ISPs have even agreed to be
listed on the offcial K56flex web page (a check item at time of web
registration). However, BoardWatch (Jack) felt that because the web
registration page, defaults to 'yes I want to be listed', that it wasn't on
the up and up. However, in support of Jack, I provided him with a couple of
registered ISPs, and when he called to verify their support of K56flex,
they said they knew nothing about K56flex. <Go figure?>

>
>> 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.
>
>Indeed.

Again over 600 ISP have already registered and that doesn't even count most
of Asia Pacific, Latin America or Europe!

>
>> 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.
>
>I'd pass this off as another stupid mistake by Boardwatch and/or something
>which they were paid to say.

I think they are just being ultra conservative.

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Marty Likier
Product Marketing Mgr.
marty@livingston.com