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To: art slott who wrote (5274)	6/5/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: WebDrone	Respond to of 8218

Art, a few $billion here, a few $billion there, and pretty soon... we are talking some serious money. $5B -T $5B - DELL $8B - Acer The scale of these deals makes my mind boggle. Web

To: art slott who wrote (5274)	6/7/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Robert Scott Diver	Respond to of 8218

Acer, IBM form technology alliance TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Acer Group and U.S. computer giant IBM have announced a seven-year, $8 billion procurement and technology alliance. Under the pact, IBM will sell Acer hard disk drives, microelectronics, networking and display technologies. Acer, Taiwan's largest computer maker, already manufactures IBM personal computers under an existing multibillion dollar agreement. The companies say the latest alliance could include joint development of new chips for use in IBM's PowerPC. The chips could be used in future Internet products and Internet-related business. usatoday.com

To: art slott who wrote (5274)	6/7/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 8218

IBM announces a new "thin" RS/6000 mini-server , new AIX INTC version (SCO) of AIX due last part of year 2000 but this AIX runs now on the new PowerPC low cost server: " IBM's Pizzazz machines will be designed as the foundation for several different server appliance tasks, such as delivering Web pages or acting as firewalls to protect networks from outsiders, said Tim Dougherty, RS/6000 e-business product manager at IBM. The Pizzazz computers will become the lowest-priced of the RS/6000 line, which use Power architecture chips such as the PowerPC and which run IBM's AIX version of the Unix operating system. IBM is working with LinuxPPC to make sure the computers can use the Linux operating system as well. " news.com Linux also - maybe why IBM bought part of Linux distributor RedHat before its IPO ? Nah ! Jim K. PS: Art sincerest congrats on ACTV - your speculative guts at $2 is now to be deemed a brilliant investment at $15