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On Tue, 18 Apr 1995 CIIR@aol.com wrote:

> >  However, one man who knows, almost by the hour, which publications are
> heading >fastest towards the new electronic frontier is Steve Outing, founder
> of Planetary News of El >Cerrito, California.
>  [rest of article cut--copyright and all]

Congratulations Steve!
It's good to see you got recognized.

> Steve is quoted that he sees a herd instinct, with many papers going online
> for defensive reasons,and foresees broader interest in online as today's
> Internet savy college students fan out into the world.
Actually Steve, Internet Savy College Students have been coming out 
pretty regularly since about 1983.  College students actually invented 
the internet.  The protocol was a product of the Military, but the use as 
a wide-open-forum with wide open servers was a phenomena of MIT, UCB, CMU,
RIT, and about 30 other colleges and universities.

Now, those students are hitting their 30' and early 40's and moving into 
upper management postions.  Not only is e-mail a way of life for us, it's 
a crucial element of the "24-hour turn-around" and "Just in time" 
ordering technology used in most Businesses throughout the world.

As more of these "trailing edge baby-boomers" approach retirement, they 
are much more inclined to "self manage" investments, given that the 
common institutional strategies are more oriented toward the 
trailing-edge boomers now taking early retimement.  This has lead to more 
use of internet technology (TCP/IP...) in the financial sectors.

The big media seemed to jump from IBM to DEC/VMS before getting to 
UNIX/TCP/IP.  The sudden influx if internet users isn't so much the 
adoption by you college graduates, but more the acceptance by the older 
executives who were accustomed to "Nobody ever lost a job for choosing 
IBM" now finding that they must rely on Open Standards and experts
who understand them to tie together diverse specialized servers.

> Anyway, congrats to Steve for the international recognition.
Congratulations again.

> Ben Compaine
> Chairman, Center for Information Industry Research
> Temple University

	Rex Ballard
	Directer of Electronic Distribution
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw Hill

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