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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1715)	1/16/2000 5:15:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

SANergy is gone from MRCY.......... On December 14, 1999, Mercury announced the signing of an agreement for the sale of the assets of our Shared Storage Business Unit (SSBU) to Tivoli Systems, an IBM company. Following Hart-Scott-Rodino review the SSBU will become part of the Storage Solutions Business Unit of Tivoli, which specializes in open, highly scalable and cross-platform IT management solutions for networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. It will no longer be part of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. The SSBU was focused on developing innovative, cutting-edge technology that enables the sharing of data, files, and applications on multiple levels and across diverse platforms. While we've developed a family of powerful, flexible software products for the storage area network market, our core business is in the digital signal and image processing area. Tivoli is a company that is focused on the shared storage market with the channel and resources to get maximum leverage from our innovative technology, and we're pleased to have reached this agreement. Our SSBU employees look forward to an exciting future, and Mercury will receive a fair return on our R&D investment in shared storage intellectual property. For more information, see mc.com Jay Bertelli

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1715)	1/16/2000 10:18:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Joe, Perhaps we should start an ASP thread to get more participants? What do you think? ASP news............... ASP to Go Seeking a piece of the application service provider (ASP) marketplace, Nortel Networks Corp. last month announced agreements with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP, Palo Alto, Calif.) and messaging vendor Software.com Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) to package managed applications for small and midsize businesses. Nortel's new "Managed Application Services Initiative" is designed to integrate all the pieces that ASPs need to offer a single ready-to-go solution to customers, says Rich Caruso, president of Nortel's service provider and carrier group. The first set of applications will be available in the first quarter of this year and will be priced on a per-seat, per-month basis. The initiative will provide hardware, software, billing, consulting and administrative support to ASPs. Nortel plans to build three data centers this year to deliver the hosted applications to the ASPs or their customers, although ASPs will be able to use the apps in their own data centers as well.