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To: LLCF who wrote (10962)	11/3/2001 7:37:17 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 74559

Sources: Veritas to boost IBM dealings By Mike Tarsala, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 4:45 AM ET Nov. 3, 2001 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Veritas Software plans to unveil this week an expanded sales and marketing alliance with hardware and services giant IBM that analysts say could increase the customer base for the smaller company's flagship product. The announcement will be timed to correspond with a meeting on Thursday with financial analysts at Veritas headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., according to sources close to the company. IBM's global services employees will recommend storage-management software maker Veritas' applications for an increasing number of its technology projects. Veritas' software will be sold to customers with networks mostly running Microsoft or Unix operating software. IBM will sell its Tivoli Storage Manager software for mainframe applications. Analysts said the relationship will get Veritas' products in the door at large companies that its sales force didn't reach before. "If you look at a list of the top 5,000 companies worldwide, most of those companies have enterprise storage initiatives that start on the mainframe level," said Bill North, analyst with Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp. "They'll talk to IBM before they'll talk to Veritas." Julia Glenister, spokeswoman for Veritas, said she wouldn't confirm or deny plans for a stepped-up marketing alliance between the two companies. Sources familiar with the announcement said they're not certain if Veritas (VRTS: news, chart, profile) and IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile) plan to announce they're working to co-develop storage products made especially for Big Blue's DB2 database-management software. In September, Veritas unveiled a version of its software made especially for the Oracle 9i (ORCL: news, chart, profile) database. Such a product agreement with IBM could benefit Veritas, as Big Blue continues to take market share from Oracle in the database market, and Hewlett-Packard (HWP: news, chart, profile) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW: news, chart, profile) in server computers, says Doug Van Dorsten, analyst with Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco. "The only one that's growing right now is IBM, and Veritas doesn't have a very close relationship with them," Van Dorsten said.

To: LLCF who wrote (10962)	11/4/2001 6:08:43 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

1981 is a bit silly no? It seems we are agreed that some kind of adjustment is theoretically correct. Probably nearly as useful, and CERTAINLY closer to the same than the government throws into their statistics pot. Truth is, they don't have a clue. I'd agree that the emthod the BLS/Commerce are using could be improved on. Can you give a good reason why this should be done? The reason they focused on computers etc. is because change is so rapid there that it was having a significant impact on the stats. The goverment doesn't try and measure other intangibles [noise in society, quality of life, etc], why throw these intangibles into the pot? By this reasoning you wouldn't measure product quality for it's own sake. GNP/GDP just measures market goods/income etc. There are plenty of unofficial efforts to incldue those other things too.