The Nations Leading Weekly Computer News Summary - Now In Its 37th Year - Vol.37 No.19 - May 13, 1995

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Weekly computer news issue summarizing major developments across telecom, online services, and enterprise computing. It reports Bell Atlantic’s referral program to promote ISDN residential service and explains how ISDN can integrate voice, data, and video on a high-speed line. It also covers Prodigy’s managers negotiating to buy Prodigy’s online service, plus additional brief industry items. Includes publication credits, an issue table of contents, and multiple technology announcements.

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The Nations Leading Weekly Computer News Summary --Now In Its 37th Year.

BELL ATLANTIC IN FULLCOURT PRESS TO SELL CONSUMERS ON ISDN

Prodigy Managers To Buy Online Service From Sears, IBM For About $100 Million

STRATEGIC USE OF NT GROWS IN MAJOR FIRMS AS UNIX BEGINS TO SLIP

IN THIS ISSUE

COMPAQ BEEFING UP PRESARIO MODELS WITH JBL SPEAKERS, 3-D ARCADE GRAPHICS

Vol.37 No.19 From Washington D.C.A Millin Publishing Group,Inc.Publication # The Nations Leading Weekly Computer News Summary --Now In Its 37th Year. ## BELL ATLANTIC IN FULLCOURT PRESS TO SELLCONSUMERS ON ISDN Phone Company Will Offer ISPs,Online Services$15 Finder's Fee To Help Sign Up Users Bell Atlantic is launching a referral programdesigned to aggressively market Integrated ServicesDigital Network (ISDN)technology to its residentialcustomers who use the Intemet.Under the program,both Intemetserviceproviders(ISPs)andonline serviceproviders will receive$15foreach residentialcustomerthey refer to Bell Atlantic who signs up for the high-speeddigital telephone service. "ISPs need to offer higher speed and higherquality data services to attract and keep customers,consumers want to enjoy the services they spend time(Coninued on Page 2) ## Prodigy Managers To Buy Online ServiceFrom Sears,IBM For About $100 Million Managers atProdigy Services Co.are negotiat-ing a $100 million deal to purchase the troubled Prodigyonline service from co-0wners IBM Corp.and Sears,Roebuck &Co.(seeEDPWeekly,April8,pg.6).Callingthe deal a "fire-sale transaction,"The Wall Street Jour-nal notes the price is considerably less than the $500million Sears sought for its 50 percent interest last year,not to mention the $1 billion that IBM,Sears and originalpartner CBS Inc.have pumped into Prodigy Services Co.since its 1984 launch.The price is also way below themultibillion-dollar stock valuations of Prodigy's chiefrivals,America Online Inc.and CompuServe Inc.Ana-lysts say Prodigy,which recentuycut 17percentof its680employees,is likely to fall into fourth place behindMicrosoft Network(see related story,pg.2). # Weekl May 13,1995 ## STRATEGIC USE OF NT GROWSIN MAJOR FIRMS AS UNIXBEGINS TO SLIP Half OfRespondents To Sentry Survey Say NTLikely To Become Their Preferred Server OS Microsoft'sNThas becomethepreferredoper-ating environment for strategic server deployments inFortune 1000organizations--includingemerging Webapplications --and for the first time is underminingUNIX's role in the eyesof corporate ISbuyers,accord-ing to a just released survey conducted by Sentry(Continued on Page 6) ## IN THIS ISSUE Presarios Getting Multimedia Facelit …2Prodigy Users Get Free Europe Acces -…2Business Is Booming At Logic Workse -3WORLD TRADE --…3NSF Seeks Cleaner Chip Making Processe --…4MARKET RESEARCH… …5Cray Beels Up Parallel Vector System. …7SGI Has Desktops-To-Teraflops Plan …7Netsurfing TVs Coming Soon From Zenit --…7MINI/MICRO UPDATE ….8AT&T Chooses US Robo Hub For ATM Service-.…9Intel Begins Big AGP Spec Push… ……9MCI,Intergraph Offering Net Server Bundke -…10UPCOMING EVENTS …10 Publisher:SL.Millin Group Publisher:Thomas G.Shack,Ⅲ Managing Editor:MichaelE.Cotter Senior Editor:Elizabeth J.Lohr Subscription Manager:Ruth A.Hill Director of Marketing:Jon S.Lowder and moneyon,and Bell Atlantic wants to give custom-ers another reason to use ISDN at home,"says CurtKoeppen,Bell Atlantic's vice president of ISDN. ISDNintegrates voice,data and video signalson a single,high-speed digital phone line and cansupport transmissions up to nine times faster thanregular analog phone lines,allowing users to quicklydownload large data files or complex graphics. Bell Atlantic says participants in the referralprogram will include current or future ISPs and onlineserviceproviders who support dial-upISDNservice forconsumers in at least some part of the Bell Atlanticservice area. ISPs can promote the service in a number ofwaysincluding:establishingahyper-text,one-waylinkfrom their World Wide Website to Bell Atlantic'shomepage;sending ane-mail message to their high-volumecustomers in the Bell Atlantic service area;or sendingdirectmail advertising toprospective customersnotinghow ISDN can enhance their use of the Internet. ISDN servi

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What deal is covered regarding Prodigy’s online service?

The issue reports that Prodigy Services Co. managers are negotiating a roughly $100 million transaction to purchase Prodigy’s troubled online service from IBM and Sears. The report frames it as a fire-sale and compares the price to prior bids and investment amounts.

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