Message-ID: <24171441.1075848082011.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:21:00 -0700 (PDT) From: mark.palmer@enron.com To: steven.kean@enron.com, kelly.kimberly@enron.com Subject: FW: begger.com & ebegger... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Mark Palmer X-To: Steven J Kean, Kelly Kimberly X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Steven_Kean_June2001_4\Notes Folders\Discussion threads X-Origin: KEAN-S X-FileName: skean.nsf ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron on 04/25/2000 10:14 AM --------------------------- "Rieke, Michael" on 04/25/2000 09:37:24 AM To: "'hesson'" , "'mark palmer'" , "'Tom Gros'" cc: Subject: FW: begger.com & ebegger... >Three beggars are begging in New York City. >The first one wrote "beggar" on his broken steel cup and he received ten >bucks after one day. > >The second one wrote "beggar.com" on his cup and after one day he received >hundreds of thousands of dollars. Someone even wanted to take him to >NASDAQ. > >The third one wrote "eBeggar" on his cup. Both IBM and HP sent >vice-presidents to talk to him about a strategic alliance and offered him >free hardware and professional consulting while Larry Ellison claimed on >CNBC that eBeggar uses 95% Oracle technology. I2 announced >BeggarTradeMatrix a b2b industry portal to offer supply chain integration >in the beggar. Cisco just announced that virtually all eBeggar traffic >runs over their equipment.