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To: JC Jaros who wrote (40697)	1/21/2001 7:28:46 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 64865

Are you pulling that 600M iPlanet number from publically available info? If so, where? Publicly presented, yes. Publicly available, no. This figure was given for "current year" by Barbara Gorden, VP Worldwide Field Operations for iPlanet during her opening remarks. I don't know how the economics of iPlanet work in terms of the Sun and AOL/Netscape participation. Most of the people that work there seem to have sun.com email addresses and there is certainly a lot of cooperation between Sun and iPlanet that resembles the sort you would expect with a wholy owned division, but it may be that there are equally strong ties with the Netscape history. It seems to function operationally as if it were its own company, but with a rather permeable membrane behind the scenes in terms of shifting intellectual property, people, and work between the participating companies.