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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5415)	8/1/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: pigfarmer	Respond to of 12475

this may be of interest to the thread, 3 of the 12 victims of the horrific mass murder on thursday in atlanta, were south asians... here's a link the the names of the victims accessatlanta.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5415)	8/2/1999 9:03:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: enjoyed the article very much. Here is something that is interesting. August 2, 1999 Hewlett-Packard Sees Its Future as an E-Commerce Revolutionary By JOHN MARKOFF ALO ALTO, Calif. -- In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol. And no one may be more aware of that right now than Rajiv Gupta, a 36-year-old Hewlett-Packard computer designer, who for years has seen how the Microsoft Corp.'s control of a series of software protocols, or technical formats, has made Microsoft the dominant force in the computer industry. Gupta is now leading an ambitious Hewlett-Packard effort to establish a comparable edge in Internet-commerce technology with a set of programming protocols called E-Speak. The E-Speak initiative is perhaps the most crucial part of a sweeping makeover by Hewlett, which is intent on transforming itself from a stodgy maker of computers, printers and test equipment into a 21st-century Internet services company. If he succeeds, even by Silicon Valley standards Gupta will have proven to be something of a wunderkind. He came to Hewlett-Packard at age 28 in 1991, fresh out of graduate school as an expert in processor design and software compilers -- software that translates the programmer's instructions into machine code. Until three years ago, his principal role was as the technical lead designer for the joint Intel-Hewlett IA-64 microprocessor project -- the chip that became the Merced, on which the Intel Corp. is banking its post-Pentium future. The E-Speak software project was still only a sidelight. But when the IA-64 chip design left the lab to be turned over to a development team, Gupta shifted his full attention to pursuit of his E-Speak vision. And now, even if the IA-64 chip design ultimately becomes Intel's technical standard-bearer, Gupta contends that E-Speak has the potential to make a bigger impact.