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To: paul who wrote (32652)	6/5/2000 4:43:00 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Paul and Ralf: Ralf, nice article you posted, also on todays S.I. lead in page nice article on Internet foundation companies under Reuters byline. I was glad to see SUNW listed as one of the "safe" plays!! Paul, wish you would post more often. Its persons like yourself who are out there where the rubber meets the road that make these threads so very valuable to investors like myself. Had I seen your post a few days ago would have added to my position when SUNW was down. Please stay with us. JDN

To: paul who wrote (32652)	6/5/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 64865

Thank you paul!!!!! To my knowledge, Schwab uses NT workstations in their customer service dept. I know for a fact that all their trading systems are in AZ and all run on IBM mainframes as has been the case since the company began. Thanks for the info on their SUNW purchases. The bit about INTC buying Sun equipment is a howler.... cheers, cherylw

To: paul who wrote (32652)	6/5/2000 7:14:00 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Paul, I am not familiar with the San Fran operations. It is public knowledge that their trading systems reside in Phoenix and for Europe in Birmingham and Milton Keynes. It is public knowledge that there are many NT web servers interfacing with IBM application servers and databases run on a mixture of NT, IBM, and Sun. I am not willing to share any info that is not public knowledge as Schwab have been one of my company's major customers in the last two years. Edit - and of course the office systems are NT based with Schwab very keen to transfer to 2000 very quickly. They are generally an early adopter of MS technology, indeed they agreed to be a MS case study after implementing a very early and very successful Exchange rollout.