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To: ehasfjord who wrote (61484)	9/30/2002 7:04:33 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 77399

F5 Networks Announces Support for the IBM eServer BladeCenter F5's BIG-IP(R) Blade Controller maximizes the availability, scalability, and operational efficiencies of the new IBM blade server platform Monday September 30, 7:02 am ET SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2002-- F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV - News), the leading provider of Internet Traffic Management (ITM) products, today announced its support of IBM's new eServer BladeCenter to provide customers with the ability to create flexible and customized business solutions with BladeCenter. F5's market-leading BIG-IP® Blade Controller runs on a blade and offers increased efficiencies for enterprises by maximizing the availability, performance and scalability of the blade server platform. IBM's BladeCenter architecture provides a modular infrastructure that is designed to help maximize productivity, minimize IT administration and lower customers' total cost of management. "Already taxed IT departments are forced to accomplish much more with less; yet are under growing pressure to architect high-performance systems that can support the heavy lifting associated with web services and enterprise applications," said Jeff Benck, Director IBM xSeries servers. "The need for IBM's high density BladeCenter solution is clear as our customers are demanding increased computing density, smaller form factors, and decreased cost of ownership. F5's BIG-IP Blade Controller is designed to help ensure high availability and optimize our BladeCenter solution by intelligently directing traffic to the most optimal resource." F5 Networks' BIG-IP Blade Controller optimizes any blade server environment by providing the richest and most flexible features for Internet traffic management. It has the unique ability to take preemptive measures to prevent application, server or network problems and creates massive economies of scale in computing, cost savings, and personnel resources. The BIG-IP Blade Controller is a critical extension of any blade server platform since it virtualizes individual blades and applications; presenting them as a single entity for simplified management. "IBM's BladeCenter solution effectively addresses the data center problems of limited space, high energy costs, and complex hardware management," said John Bigelow, vice president and general manager, F5 Networks Software Business. "With the BIG-IP Blade Controller software, F5 extends the benefits of IBM's BladeCenter by directing data and application traffic to the best performing blades within the environment, ensuring complete high availability and business continuity."

To: ehasfjord who wrote (61484)	9/30/2002 9:15:39 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77399

yea, they own a bunch of cisco. And they cleverly collared it too. So the decline hasn't hurt them at all, nor will a recovery. So in effect they do own about $8/share. The question however remains: would you pay par for a $5 bill with puke all over it? If similarly dirty bills are available down the street for $4 each, even hardened souls might pass. When one can purchase assets below asset value (Worldcom comes to mind), why would anyone want to buy equities above asset value? Even growth stocks are effected, particularly if they depend on growth of the distressed businesses (such as Worldcom). One can take certain now-profit by buying stuff in distress versus unsure future-profit? Hey, that's the old bird in the hand versus two in the bush thing. Personally I fully expect to be able to accumulate assets at a fraction of their real worth, as companies enter the last phase and desperately struggle just to stay afloat. And a few won't make it... the risk of being prematurely greedy. And so I wait. Am I alone in this thought process? Probably not. It is a timeless pattern. Picture the same thing in Yellowstone... a pair of wolves resting, fully alert, just out of reach of a grizzly and his kill. Staring through the binoculars I have a sudden empathy for those patient, panting wolves: sooner or later he will leave it and then they will feast on the scraps. The question now is the degree to which this heartless empathy between hunters is shared in today's market. If such sentiment reaches critical mass it can even become a cruelly self fulfilling prophesy. I fear we are already beyond the event horizon and are about to get a rare glimpse of the other side. Deflation is such an evil condition. John