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To: Mark Orsi who wrote (3506)	2/25/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Mark Orsi	Respond to of 4453

Some new links from IBM: IBM Announces e-business Solutions Promotion: pc.ibm.com Business Partner Education: How S/390, AS/400, RS/6000 and Netfinity servers can be packaged with Network Stations. Business Partner Incentives: "Client Bonus: Sell a new S/390, AS/400, RS/6000 or Netfinity Domino e-business solution as well as 25 or more Network Station Series 300s to one customer, and the Business Partner will be eligible for 5 Network Station Series 300s at no additional cost." Competing Technology? PC-NC setup: pc.ibm.com SAP and IBM ready applications for Java NC: pc.ibm.com "IBM's and other vendors' network computer platforms later this year will receive a boost when enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor SAP and IBM release Java applications for thin-client architectures. SAP, which in 1997 announced plans to develop a Java-based front end for SAP R/3 business software tailored for the IBM network computer, is expected to unveil the Java client at the CeBit show in Hanover, Germany, in March. " ... "Additionally, IBM is working on a "broadcast boot" feature to balance the network load in case NC users all try to boot at once, McAughtry said. "

To: Mark Orsi who wrote (3506)	2/25/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Jim Henke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4453

Odd NCD stuff metalcomp.com.sg ascend.com Judy Estrin joins Board of Directors at Sun sun.com argecy.com This one lists 9 companies under the heading "Computing". Right along side SGI, IBM, SUN, Cray,...is NCD. For people like David who may not know, NCD is well known and respected in the industry. rhic.bnl.gov They apparently have some pretty smart people too. I had one link with an NCD employee talking about telling the difference between code and data with a disassembler. Palo Alto Design Group claims credit on the Explora padg.com