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About several miles, it seems today, and increasing...
:-)
Gwenn

Ira Tunik wrote:

> How far from the truth is this parody?
>
> There are three beggars begging on Wall Street.
>
>  The first beggar wrote "Beggar" on his broken cup.  He received $10.00
>  after one day.
>
>  The next day, the second beggar wrote "Beggar.com" on his cup.  After
> one
>  day, he received hundreds of thousands of dollars and an offer to float
> an
>  IPO on NASDAQ.
>
>  The following day, the third beggar wrote "e-Beg" on his cup.
> Microsoft,
>  IBM, and HP sent corporate vice-presidents to talk to him about
> strategic
>  alliances and offered him free hardware consultancy.  In addition, it
> was
>  reported on CNBC that e-Beg uses 95% Oracle technology and that I2
>  announced the launch of BegTradeMatrix; a b2b industry portal offering
>  supply chain integration in the beggar community.