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To: Schmedley who wrote (28662)	11/14/1997 3:00:00 AM
From: Scott Patrick Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

Yall both need some sleep..zzzzzzzzz Scott

To: Schmedley who wrote (28662)	11/14/1997 3:10:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

[Tesseracts and GTE] My understanding of the term "tesseract" comes from Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time: Explaining the different dimensions to his sister, the protagonist says, "Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points." The concept gives the author her title, "A Wrinkle in Time." Now, back to business, here's a late-breaking announcement from GTE: <<< NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - GTE Corp's Internetworking unit said Thursday it will acquire Genuity Inc, a subsidiary of privately-held Bechtel Enterprises. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. GTE Internetworking provides 'Web hosting' services which allow customers to transfer their business applications to the Internet. Moving business processes to the Web allows companies to broaden their market reach and lower the cost of sales, distribution and support, GTE Internetworking said. Genuity provides distributed application hosting solutions. The company also has data centers and a load-balancing technology, called Hopscotch, which helps solve busy server problems and network congestion, GTE said. "The integration of our robust hosting infrastructure and powerful Hopscotch technology with GTE Internetworking's extensive resources will create a synergistic union," said T. Geir Ramleth, Genuity's president and chief executive said. GTE said the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration of antitrust waiting periods. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.>>>> Genuity: genuity.net Full press release: genuity.net <<< Genuity's unique Hopscotch technology helps solve busy server problems, network congestion, and Internet latency to deliver the highest levels of performance. Its customers include c\|net, CMP Publications, Inc., Excite, InterTel,and MCA/Universal. "With this acquisition we continue to build the critical set of assets necessary to advance our position as a trusted provider of the enabling infrastructure for Internet commerce. We are combining our high-speed national backbone with global reach, robust public and private peering relationships, advanced hosting and distributed application management with our security and systems integration expertise to enable customers to migrate mission critical applications and business processes to the network," said George H. Conrades, president of GTE Internetworking. >>> Speaking of going through hoops, GTE's doing all right. Pat