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From: victoro@crash.cts.com (Victor O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Best Network address for my company
Summary: Evaluating the usefulness of providing a Internet address
Keywords: Semiconductor Manufacturer Network Internet
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Date: 7 May 91 01:30:31 GMT
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My company is on the verge of joining the modern era and attaching our
internal network to a commercial network.  I believe the Internet should
be considered as it is my idea of a network made of connections of
research and educations organizations.

My company is one of the larger instrumentation companies in the area of high vacu
vacuum and mass flow measurement.  We deal with semiconductor manufacturers
and scientific reserach projects from Afganastan to White Sands.

What I'd like to know, is how many of our customers, or potential customer,
are out there, and is the availablity of a Internet address an advantage for
a non-software company, that builds hardware towards the manufacture of
computer hardware?