Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:14:19 +0100 (MET)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:14:19 +0100 (MET) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: [ifets] Intel aims to educate schools to Internet use
Dear IFETS Forum Members,
Intel aims to educate schools to Internet use
Netmobile: the IT Bus, a network-equipped school bus which visits
Hong Kong schools to demonstrate the role of IT in education.
YVONNE CHAN
http://www.scmp.com/news/template/Tec-Template.idc?artid=1998113018512
7022&top=tec&template=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=3910
Chip-making giant Intel is aiming its networking products at
schools, in the belief that the Internet will be used increasingly as
a learning tool.
The Web "levels the playing field between rich schools and poor
schools", Intel's products division general manager Mark Christensen
said.
Obtaining learning materials through the Internet and participating
in specialised classes using teleconferencing enabled schools to
enhance courses.
"The Internet is driving how these schools are getting themselves
set up," he said.
Shun Lee Catholic Secondary School recently set up a $6 million IT
infrastructure, with about $1.2 million spent on networking
equipment, including Intel hardware.
Intel is promoting the concept of networked schools in the region
and has met government officials in the SAR, the mainland and South
Korea to encourage the idea.
Intel had donated some networking equipment to Asian schools, but
most equipment was sold, Mr Christensen said.
Schools would be a lucrative networking market in the short term,
because the recession had affected spending budgets in the private
business sector, International Data Corp analyst Vincent Yiu said.
"For the near future, the government and education markets are going
to be major buyers."
Intel - best known as the world's biggest microprocessor maker - has
a range of networking equipment intended to promote fast computing
technologies such as the Internet.
By helping to spread advanced computing, Intel would be able to sell
more of its fast, high-priced chips used in top-end PCs.
Intel's InBusiness product line is aimed at offices with up to 25
employees.
Its core networking business would remain in the small and
medium-sized business sector, although schools, hospitals and
governments were growing markets - even during the present
recession, Mr Christensen said.
Intel believed the networking market would segment as vendors
focussed on areas such as backbone infrastructure, routers and
wide-area networks.
It considered the small business market lucrative, estimating there
were more than 22 million small businesses worldwide, of which about
half had more than two PCs.
It has in the past acknowledged that emerging markets such as the
mainland provided some of its biggest business because they were
"green fields", as opposed to mature markets where buyers would
stick to vendors they knew.
Intel is a relative newcomer to the networking market, having
entered the field about five years ago.
One of its rivals for the small business sector was 3Com, which had
a bigger market share because of a vast distribution network and a
long-standing reputation, Mr Yiu said.
"People have the perception that 3Com is very well-known, is very
good technology, and has very reasonable prices," he said.
3Com competes with Intel in the schools market also. Its switches
and hubs are used in the "IT Bus", a network-equipped school bus
which will travel to schools to show off new multimedia applications.
Meanwhile, Intel has launched in Hong Kong its InBusiness eMail
Station, which provides e-mail services to offices with up to 50
users.
The station, which is the size of a paperback book, allows a company
to have one Internet account for multiple users.
The company was able to use its own domain name and saved money by
eliminating the need for manual e-mail downloads and multiple phone
lines and Internet accounts, Intel said.
E-mail messages could be sent to each employee's personal mailboxes,
without having to connect to the Internet provider.
The appliance works with mail client browser software such as
Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail. It is priced at US$875.
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