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To: Night Writer who wrote (34519)	10/11/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

From the Dell Thread....... To: Tony Hsu (71353 ) From: FezKoprucu Sunday, Oct 11 1998 10:53PM ET Reply # of 71359 Sunday October 11, 10:30 pm Eastern Time (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) Tokyo stocks stage powerful rally amid bank hopes TOKYO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday morning, rising more than four percent by midday after weekend reports that the government was seeking as much as 67 trillion yen to support the banking system. Stability in New York stocks and the dollar/yen rate also contributed to equity enthusiasm that swept up almost every sector. The benchmark Nikkei average rose 570.54 points, or 4.43 percent, to close the morning at 13,450.51. Nikkei December futures rose 590 to 13,460. Over the weekend, local newspapers reported that the administration of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi would seek the gigantic package to stabilise a banking sector creaking under as much as 87 trillion yen in problem loans. The news boosted the spirits of traders, who have crticised the government for not addressing the problem with appropriate speed or gravity. The proposed package, they said, may be an effort to convince doubting Thomases of their resolve to deal with a problem that is in part responsible for dragging the world's second-largest economy into recession.

To: Night Writer who wrote (34519)	10/11/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

More from the Dellheads..... To: Mohan Marette (71355 ) From: Craig Lieberman Sunday, Oct 11 1998 11:33PM ET Reply # of 71360 Pay close attention to the bold there Re: Sony Corp., which sank to a 52-week low Friday as the dollar dropped against the yen, was untraded on a glut of buy bids after the computer-laden Nasdaq Composite Index surged more than 5percent in Friday's U.S. trading. Top exporters such Fuji Photo Film Co., Bridgestone Corp. and Honda Motor Co., which also fell to their lowest in a year during Friday's sell off, were untraded as buy bids overwhelmed sell offers. This is what happens in the turn arounds... Lots of buyers and NOBODY SELLING... seems like a recipe for a surging stock price.

To: Night Writer who wrote (34519)	10/12/1998 7:32:00 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Compaq Pledges Digital Allegiance Vows continued support for Alpha, Digital Unix and OpenVMS at DECUS By Carmen Nobel and Lisa Dicarlo in Los Angeles, PC Week Online October 12, 1998 Compaq Computer Corp. appears to be putting its Digital money where its mouth is. At the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society conference here last week--the first since Compaq acquired Digital Equipment Corp.--Compaq officials laid out plans for further development of such Digital technologies as the Alpha processor and servers, Digital Unix, and OpenVMS. In an effort to build support for the software, Compaq will help fund the development of some Digital Unix and OpenVMS applications, co-market the applications with ISVs, and press ISVs for faster delivery of applications. Compaq will also invest in interoperability between these operating systems and Windows NT, said officials here. Rich Marcello, vice president of Compaq's OpenVMS Business Group, in Nashua, N.H., told a DECUS gathering in no uncertain terms that Compaq will not discontinue development of OpenVMS until customers say it's time to do so. The show of commitment was welcomed by the Digital faithful, most of whom have long complained of poor software support for OpenVMS. "Software we depend on has moved away from OpenVMS in droves," said one Digital customer who requested anonymity. Sybase Inc. discontinued support for its OpenVMS-based databases early this year, while Oracle Corp. is chronically late to market with OpenVMS versions of its new databases, the Digital customer said. Compaq officials said they had met with Oracle officials last month and that they have hammered out a plan to make sure Oracle's OpenVMS software comes to market within three months of an OpenVMS operating system release. No timetable on when the two will synchronize their product schedules was offered. Not everyone was satisfied. "Where is the native Alpha version of [Microsoft Corp.'s] Office?" asked a DECUS attendee. Compaq officials confirmed plans to port Digital's Galaxy partitioning software from OpenVMS to NT, but not until at least NT 6.0. Houston-based Compaq plans to make sure NT is ready for large-scale clustering by doing its own development on the Microsoft operating system, officials said. Galaxy lets multiple instances of the OpenVMS operating system run cooperatively on the same computer, making it easier for IT managers to control variable workloads. In addition, Compaq has commitments from systems companies to license and deploy Digital Unix, said John Rose, senior vice president and group general manager of the Enterprise Computing Group. Rose declined to name the licensees or when they would be announced. OpenVMS 7.2, which was previewed at DECUS and which will ship in January, takes advantage of Compaq's relationship with Microsoft by featuring tighter integration between OpenVMS and Windows NT. Compaq expects to further integrate the operating system with NT through semi-annual updates of OpenVMS, officials said. On the hardware front, Compaq said it plans to continue to advance the Alpha processor. The company is developing follow-on versions to the existing EV6 version, or 21264, officials said. On deck in development are the EV7, EV8, EV9 and EV10. Compaq's commitment to Alpha is underscored by the decision to move the Tandem Himalaya servers off MIPS and onto Alpha, officials said. "That's not a decision Compaq would have made if they thought Alpha was just going to be a stopgap to Merced," said Jesse Lipcon, senior vice president of the high-performance server division at Compaq. In related news, Compaq will announce next week that it has rebranded the AlphaServer 8400 as the Compaq Global Server, which will support up to eight EV6 Alpha processors, said sources familiar with the company's plans. These will be the first new Alpha servers branded with a Compaq logo. The company will also deliver a two-way 21264 server, called the Departmental Server, in November and a four-way system, called the Enterprise Server, in January, sources said. By September 1999, Compaq hopes to deliver a 32-way Alpha-based server, sources said.