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To: SteveC who wrote (25798)	1/5/2000 3:02:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) of 64865

It's my memory that Forte had hopes for significant sales for software for IBM's RS/6000 servers. I have no memory of this being particularly a target platform. It was and is a supported platform, but I don't believe it is as important as Sun and HP for Unix boxes in the Forte market. Were you perhaps thinking of the OS/390 port? There were big hopes for that and there have been some major wins there. what role do you see for Forte's software in today's announcement between Sun/Netscape & IBM? While all of Sun's tool products have been moved under Forte (Forte selling Fortran!!!!), the Sun/Netscape alliance is all about deployment products. Consequently, the next version of the iPlanet AppServer will be a combination of already planned forward movement from the prior release with a bit thrown in from the Forte SynerJ AppServer. After April, I think it is, the FJEE AppServer will not be sold and the iPlanet iAS will be the only one.

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