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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (37600)	11/10/2000 4:00:36 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

There are machines involved running software from IBM, SUNW and MSFT. To be fair to those vendors, when the system fails it is almost always the "fault" of an in-house piece of software.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (37600)	11/12/2000 8:18:22 PM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 64865

I think that's what chic told me. BTW, I've talked to Schwab, and it seems even their internal systems are somewhat hosed. I'm not an expert on the system, but I know they have monster IBM hardware. top500.org They also have other hardware as well, which I believe handles content display. I think the IBM stuff is mostly back end, like the trading system. There are a ton of things that can go wrong in a site, and it isn't always the hardwares fault. Maybe they don't have enough hardware, or their Internet connection isn't big enough, or it's a software problem, etc. You never really know and what they say public is usually not true. I never heard EBAY talking about ECC in Sun hardware last summer.