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Technology Stocks : Marimba, Inc. (MRBA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: uu who wrote (52)	4/30/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: opey	Respond to of 240

64.0625 last trade!!!! opey

To: uu who wrote (52)	4/30/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: songw	Respond to of 240

Marimba IPO Sympathy- NVDM 11s Another internet ipo, Marimba is expected to make its way into the market later today after pricing last night at 20, above its expected range. MRBA marimba.com makes software that lets companies install and automatically update and maintain software applications within a company or across the Internet. The company sells its products through a direct sales force, distributors, and resellers. Users of Marimba's Castanet line include Charles Schwab, Seagate, and Home Depot. ipocentral.com One to watch if MRBA launches itself into the stratisphere may be Novadigm NVDM 11s. Not unlike MRBA, NVDM novadigm.com designs, markets and supports an automated solution to software management in medium and large organizations with complex distributed computing environments. The company's products use patented adaptive configuration and ''fractional differencing'' technologies to increase the speed and reliability -- up to 99 percent -- and reduce the complexity and cost -- by 80 percent or more -- of distributing software across large-scale networks. Novadigm licenses its products to Fortune Global 1,000 IT organizations, software vendors and service providers around the world according to a recent release. So alike are MRBA and NVDM that the companies have been engaged in a patent dispute over their respective automated solutions. NVDM claims MRBA is violating its patent. novadigm.com news.com NVDN, trading 11s- has been edging up in expectation of a strong showing by MRBA's ipo.