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To: Allen Benn who started this subject	9/9/2000 12:44:33 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (1) of 10309

Liberate Uber Microsoft UPC Selects Liberate Over Microsoft in Vienna By Jana Sanchez AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Europe's largest cable operator United Pan-Europe Communications NV (UPC) said on Saturday it had chosen software from Liberate Technologies for its digital interactive TV service on the Vienna network. Eight percent UPC shareholder Microsoft failed to gain the contract to supply software for one of the largest networks in the UPC system, after delays in delivering its software for the Amsterdam roll-out originally planned for September. In early August Microsoft said it would not be able to deliver its Microsoft TV platform in time for UPC's planned launch of digital TV services in Amsterdam. UPC said it would go ahead with a roll-out of minimal functions for the Amsterdam network in October, and would upgrade the software sometime in the first half of next year. At the time, UPC said it would try out software from Microsoft competitors, including California-based Liberate, for the upgrade that would provide e-mail, Web browsing, video on demand and e-commerce ability. ``We began our relationship with UPC in some depth at the beginning of the year,'' Liberate's European head Stewart Collingwood told Reuters. The deal, however, was signed ''recently.'' The timing of the deal indicates that UPC is actively choosing alternatives to Microsoft after the embarrassment caused to UPC by the delay. Sources close to the situation have told Reuters that UPC is extremely angry at its shareholder. ``Liberate and Microsoft are the most logical choices when we migrate to full interactive capabilities in Amsterdam,'' Bert Holtkamp of UPC told Reuters. The Vienna network has 480,000 users. UPC is 51 percent owned by UnitedGlobalCom. dailynews.yahoo.com

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