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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (78684)	2/23/2000 6:45:00 PM
From: Red Scouser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Compaq builds Europe's mightiest computer for Paris LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Compaq Computer Corp [CPQ-news] said on Wednesday it would build Europe's biggest supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Commission, the CEA, to help it keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe without testing. "The Alpha supercomputer will be over seven times more potent than Europe's existing supercomputers and capable of handling a mammoth five trillion operations per second," the company said in a statement. One second of the computer's calculations will be the equivalent of 30,000 mathematicians working day and night for five years on handheld calculators, or of all the world's six billion humans doing their sums for 15 minutes each, it said. "The Compaq Alpha supercomputer will use its...capacity to sustain the reliability and safety of the French nuclear stockpile without new nuclear tests," the Munich-based European division of Compaq said in a statement released in London. After a series of controversial nuclear tests in the south Pacific, France has joined fellow nuclear power Britain in ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The U.S. Senate has rejected signing the accord.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (78684)	2/23/2000 6:47:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

DJN: =DJ Gateway/Sun -2: Gateway Breaks With Microsoft Ranks According to Roger Kay, an analyst with research firm IDC, Farmingham, Mass., Gateway stands to benefit more from the partnership with Sun since it "gains access to some big-time technology" in terms of both the Portal Pack software suite, as well as the inevitable use of Sun's servers to lash together Gateway PCs in corporate networks. Gateway's deal with Sun - probably the most outspoken enemy of Microsoft's dominance over the desktop universe - also represents a major shift by a PC maker to embrace that rival technology. "Gateway is probably one of the more maverick of the established PC" makers, Kay said. "They've broken ranks to do business with the guys on the other side." Aside from Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL) own environment and Linux - an open-source operating system embraced by a few upstart companies and so far only tentatively by the big PC vendors - Windows remains about the only operating system sold with desktop computers. The Sun-Gateway deal has probably been pondered since last fall, after America Online Inc. (AOL) said in October that it would invest $800 million for a 5% stake in Gateway as part of a broad co-marketing agreement. Sun and AOL had already formed a joint venture - called the Sun-Netscape Alliance - in early 1999 to sell a combined software product for e-commerce. (AOL acquired Netscape in March 1999). It was only a matter of time, therefore, before Gateway and Sun "closed the loop," Buckingham Research Stevens said. -By Scott Eden, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5253 (END) DOW JONES NEWS 02-23-00 05:31 PM * end of story *