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To: Peter Church who wrote (7183)	2/1/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: lkj	Respond to of 10309

I don't know much about TMS, but here is my guess. TMS had quite a few different releases. The first release, which should have contained the software integration of Routerware and Xact weren't done on time. Still, it was shipped to a few customers with just the switching software. Then there was a second release with more features for the routing layer. It seemed to me that these releases were for a specific pool of customers, and I don't think they were sold in a way of general availability to all public. My guess for doing it this way was to debug the TMS platform. Yesterday's announcement sounded like general availability of TMS for switching, but not for routing. The early customers of TMS were making their own ICs. This general offering of TMS is targeting board makers or box makers who can buy networking chips from companies like Intel and just load WRS' software on there for a final product. But WRS did say that the software will be release in source code, this means that people can still customize it if they want. Again, I am not in the networking business and I don't know much about TMS. Most of the statements above are either speculations or things I dig up from my memory. My memory sucks.