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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1911)	7/2/1998 9:16:00 PM
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[SQ/HMAPPS?] ALERT: "Small companies with transaction servers are now prime buyout candidates" "Are application server makers the new hot properties?" Yesterday's purchase of NetDynamics by Sun seems to further validate industry speculation. NetDynamics deal reflects boom By Mike Ricciuti Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM July 2, 1998, 11:45 a.m. PT news analysis "When Sun Microsystems bought middleware maker NetDynamics yesterday, it validated what many analysts have been saying for some time: Application server companies are the new hot properties in Silicon Valley. Sun declined to disclose the price of the stock-swap acquisition, but rumors have put the value of the deal in the $160 million-to-$170 million range, a steep price for a company that has yet to turn a profit. But the buyout, combined with Netscape Communications' $180 million purchase of Kiva Software last fall, already has market watchers--and giddy Sun executives--comparing the application server market to the boom days of relational software back in the 1980s. "The application server is the most exciting technology since the relational database for the enterprise," Sun chief operating officer Ed Zander said yesterday. That may be something of an overstatement, at least so far, but analysts do agree that that the market is maturing--and quickly consolidating. "Small companies with transaction servers are now prime buyout candidates," said Martin Marshall, an analyst with Zona Research..." [emphasis added] source: &copy [2 July] 1998 news.com NetDynamics netdynamics.com SoftQuad [HMAPPS] Inc. softquad.com