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To: Muthusamy SELVARAJU who wrote (11181)	9/28/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 64865

short clip from wsj tech section today Application-Servers Market to Grow Rapidly The market for application servers should grow rapidly, generating more than $2 billion in revenue by 2002, Forrester Research Inc. projects. Already 74% of Fortune 1000 companies are building browser- and Java-based applications using application servers, the research firm said. These servers -- software products -- are rapidly becoming key pieces of a companies' technology infrastructure, despite immature development tools and a lack of industry standards, Forrester said. They are designed to link thin clients, or network computers, on the desktop to business programs and database files stored centrally. But the market is crowded with more than 25 vendors offering incomplete or immature products, the research firm said. By 2001, Forrester expects acquisitions, alliances and internal development to reduce the field to five key vendors: International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Netscape Communications Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.