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To: Still Rolling who wrote (5501)	2/10/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Bipin Prasad	Respond to of 19079

all, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Oracle Working To Cut Computer Downtime Dow Jones Newswires PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday they will collaborate to develop and produce H-P's "5nines:5minutes" plan to increase the uptime of applications. Hewlett-Packard (HWP), which makes computing, Internet and intranet products, said the 5nines:5minutes vision calls for 99.999% annual end-to-end system availability, equating to five minutes of downtime a year. The company said it will integrate technologies and products with Cisco Systems to create performance-modeling tools, automatic preventive-network technology and maintenance and change-control technologies. Hewlett-Packard will collaborate with software-maker Oracle (ORCL) to provide uptime guarantees, technology that reduces database recovery time and self-tuning, self-healing databases. BPP(Bipin's partner)

To: Still Rolling who wrote (5501)	2/10/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Had a long discussion with a database programmer in Moscow who says that ORCL is carving out the dominant market position there. Hello Craig, I asked this a while back re China and I think it's a propos here, too: Do Russian computer users respect intellectual property laws? A dominant market position is wonderful no matter what, but I'd like to know whether the corporations over there really do buy site licenses rather than a single, oft-duplicated copy of a particular software title.