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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (58614)	6/5/2001 10:51:58 AM
From: sandeep	Respond to of 74651

Any well designed system will fail if you don't put enough servers on the line. First of all, do you really know if SelectNet is running Windows? Also, you conveniently forget : The Nasdaq stock market's main trading system, SelectNet, broke down on Tuesday as Nasdaq was working on increasing the system's capacity, the No. 2 U.S. equity market said

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (58614)	6/5/2001 11:15:03 AM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

Less than an hour to bring it back online and only 20 min into the trading day. Much better than the downtime at EBay due to Sun's failures. Those tech's should have done more testing before they tried it live.