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To: Lynn who wrote (31190)	4/21/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

In closing, if IBM is behind the big deal NSOL and, now writers, are making over this sale (hoping to knife SUNW), I am glad I am not an IBM shareholder because this screams out to me, "IBM is having problems." I think that's the bottom line. And I think it continues a pattern of things that have screamed out the same thing over the past several years (other than earnings reports). --QS

To: Lynn who wrote (31190)	4/21/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Lynn - that's a pretty perceptive set of questions. But you missed probably the most important aspect of this announcement - which is that the maintenance of the NSOL database is a trivial application that requires only minimal computer support. It could easily be done on any generic 4-way server running Linux, for example. The fact that this database sits at "the top of the hierarchy" is just marketing rhetoric. Even the smallest startup e-commerce businesses would require more capability - this is just not meaningful in any technical or business terms. It plays completely to the peanut gallery - people who know nothing about how the net actually works.