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To: DJBEINO who wrote (25273)2/3/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Spartex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42771
 
OT - Wednesday February 3, 12:34 pm Eastern Time

E*Trade trading disrupted by power outage

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Some customers of E*Trade Group Inc., the third largest Internet brokerage, on Wednesday morning were unable to trade stocks because of a system failure, a spokesman for the Palo Alto, Calif. brokerage said.

biz.yahoo.com

Are power outage and "system failure" equivalent? Anyone know what eTrade uses to run their network system (UNIX, NT, or even Netware)?

TIA,

QuadK