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To: RTev who wrote (27998)	8/6/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Rtev, re the eBay outage, so what's your point? ebay flat out said it was a hardware failure, which says to me single point of failure problem on their Sun server, assuming they haven't swapped it out for something more reliable since the other mega-publicity outages they had a while ago. Yes, they said they then had network problems, but the outage has to go up against hardware. It started it. What a coincidence that McNealy was on CNBC, being as arrogant as ever, within an hour or two after it apparently happened. User: aw@ebay.com Date: 08/06/99 Time: 10:31:53 PDT * UPDATE * We just want to bring you up to date on the events of this morning. We have experienced a hardware failure, and subsequently we developed network problems. We are working to restore full functionality of the system. We're sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll keep you posted. Regards, eBay