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To: CGarcia who wrote (36437)	11/12/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Compaq cuts out the middleman By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 12, 1998, 4:25 p.m. PT SAN FRANCISCO--Reinforcing its push to sell its computer products directly to buyers, Compaq Computer executives today showed off an online service that makes it easier for corporate customers to install new equipment without relying on the expertise of a middleman. ActiveAnswers, which Compaq debuted in June, is an online library that lets subscribers tap the PC maker's knowledge on selecting, configuring, and installing complex computer systems and software applications. That work is now handled by consultants, system integrators, and resellers, and other middlemen in the computer industry. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference here today, Compaq's John Nicholson and Chris Johnson demonstrated ActiveAnswer by showing how a customer could configure a complex server system running a database that had to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.