Gary, the following is a description of athm's suppliers (from their prospectus):
Dependence on Key Technology Suppliers. The Company currently depends on a
limited number of suppliers for certain key technologies used to build and
manage the @Network. In particular, the Company depends on Sun Microsystems,
Inc. ("Sun") for high availability servers, Silicon Graphics, Inc. ("SGI") for
caching servers, Cisco Systems, Inc. ("Cisco") for network routing and
switching hardware, Sprint for national switched ATM backbone services,
Objective Systems Integrators, Inc. ("OSI") for network management software,
Tivoli Systems Inc. ("Tivoli") for systems management software to operate RDCs
remotely, Oracle Corporation ("Oracle") for advanced database management
software and Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") for server and
browser software. Although the Company believes that there are alternative
suppliers for each of these technologies, it could take a significant period
of time to establish relationships with alternative suppliers and substitute
their technologies into the @Network. The loss of any of the Company's
relationships with these suppliers could have a material adverse effect on the
Company's business, operating results and financial condition. See "Business--
@Network Architecture." |
