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Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 4:38 PM -0500
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Subject: Faulkner's Systems Flash 01/19/00 (Part 1 of 2)

FAULKNER Systems & Technology-flash
	 January 19, 2000
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== Top of the News

America Online struck a deal to buy Time Warner in an all-stock deal valued
at around $350 billion. America Online chairman and chief executive Steve
Case was named chairman of the merged company, while Time Warner chairman
and chief executive Gerald Levin would be chief executive. The combined
company would allow for the delivery of programming from Time Warner's
stable of brands onto the Web and give AOL access to Time Warner's US cable
television network to offer high-speed Internet access. 

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Agreements/Joint Ventures 
	 Bull and Siebel formed a strategic agreement through which Bull will
	 become a worldwide integrator and consulting partner for Siebel Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) Solutions. Bull and Siebel will jointly sell,
integrate and support the set of Siebel applications in Europe in the areas
of sales force automation, marketing automation, customer care and call
centers. Compaq, Casio, and America Online entered into an agreement,
	 whereby AOL is developing software to enable its members to access e-mail
through Compaq's "Aero" and Casio's "Casseopia" handheld computers.
	 Corel reported that it had acquired up to a 30 percent interest in Linux
start-up Newlix. Corel will provide its Linux and graphic user interface
(GUI) development expertise to assist in the development of Newlix' Omega
server software.
	 CSC agreed to provide e-commerce related IT services to Fyffes, which
operates Worldoffruit.com, an online marketplace for fruit trade. CSC was
tapped to develop the trading facilities of Worldoffruit.com and improve the
company's Web site.
	 IT services firm EDS, through new subsidiary EDS CoNext, partnered with
Ariba to form online business-to-business marketplaces. The service pulls
together orders from multiple buyers, enabling the customers to get group
discounts and giving the suppliers larger orders. The partnership will
develop several online marketplaces, each with a focus defined by a factor
such as geography, industry, or size.
	 Fujitsu subsidiary Fujitsu Software and ISG International Software Group
partnered to combine Fujitsu's INTERSTAGE application server software with
ISG Navigator's Enterprise Information Infrastructure software for
e-Commerce, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer applications. The
resulting Enterprise Application Integration offering is designed to
optimize deployment of e-Business, Business Intelligence, and e-Service
applications.
	 Fujitsu Limited and Japanese firm Nikko Securities reported that they are
jointly establishing Internet Trading Securities, an Internet-based
introducing brokerage chiefly targeted at subscribers of @nifty, Japan's
largest Internet service provider. The new company will take advantage of
the network to offer greater convenience as it assists customers with asset
formation.
	 GM and America Online formed a strategic alliance designed to bring
consumers personalized car shopping. The companies will work together to
develop new products and services designed to help consumers use the
Internet and interact with dealers to buy automobiles and assist them
throughout the entire ownership lifecycle online.
	 Hewlett-Packard, Seagate Technology, and IBM, providers of Linear
	 Tape-Open (LTO) technology, reported that ATL Products, a designer and
manufacturer of DLTtape library systems, joined the LTO technology program.
ATL licensed the new Ultrium format, agreeing to comply with design
specifications.  Hewlett-Packard also entered into an agreement with
	 QUALCOMM for joint equipment development and field trial support of
QUALCOMM's High Data Rate (HDR) technology. Pending trial success, Hitachi
plans to design, manufacture, and commercially market HDR infrastructure
equipment.  In addition, Hewlett-Packard and e-business services holding
	 company Tesla Group reported a $40 million joint initiative to provide
offerings designed specifically to help midsize companies join the Internet
economy. The venture will combine HP's hardware, software, and
mission-critical support services with Tesla's systems integration and
managed Internet services to offer assistance from strategic planning
through design, implementation, operation, and optimization of e-business
and e-services IT infrastructures.  Finally, HP and Bluestone software
	 formed an agreement, whereby Bluestone's XML Suite Integration Server
will be incorporated into HP's business-process management system,
Changengine. Combining HP's Changengine with Bluestone's scalability, fault
tolerance, and open standards design, the integration is intended to
enhance the growth of online business-to-business trading by enabling
collaborative processes between businesses.
	 Hyundai Electronics, Infineon Technologies, Intel, Micron Technology, NEC,
and Samsung Electronics, will cooperatively develop a high-performance
advanced DRAM technology targeted for potential applications in 2003 and
beyond. Developers anticipate that this DRAM technology will be suitable for
multiple cost-effective computing platforms of the future. The developers
will work together and with industry participants to develop the
architecture, electrical and physical design, and related infrastructure for
this advanced DRAM technology.
	 Vodafone AirTouch selected IBM to design, build, manage and run a global
Internet portal for wireless devices. These will include mobile phones and
personal digital assistants (PDAs) from Nokia, Ericsson, Palm Computing, and
other companies. In addition, IBM will integrate applications and content
from e-businesses such as Charles Schwab, Sabre, Travelocity.com and
InfoSpace.com. 
	 In addition, IBM and Cisco are working together for the development and
testing of e-business products. Using IBM S/390 servers, IBM Host
Integration software and Cisco's network systems, the companies will work to
make available e-business offerings designed to both drive and support the
growth of high-volume Internet transactions. IBM S/390 and Cisco also will
identify other standards-based technologies to enhance S/390 and Cisco's
advanced IP infrastructures.
	 ICL signed a global agreement with NetManage to incorporate NetManage
PC/TCP Network v5.0 infrastructure connectivity software with the Fujitsu
Fujitsu 7100 line of handheld computers. The software allows PCs to share
files and printers, access remote applications, share resources, and run
distributed applications in shared Windows, UNIX, AS/400, and mainframe
environments. The deal is designed to broaden ICL's end-to-end offerings for
wireless environments, such as retail, route accounting, and inventory
management.
	 Inktomi formed an agreement with e-commerce vendor ShopNow.com, whereby
Inktomi will integrate its search, directory, and shopping engines
applications into ShopNow's network and syndication affiliate sites. In
return, Inktomi will receive distribution rights to a line of ShopNow's
e-commerce and content services. 
	 Inktomi also formed a strategic investment and agreement with global
content, application, and e-commerce company Adero. Adero will deploy more
than 1500 Inktomi Traffic Server and Inktomi Content Delivery Suite nodes
across Adero's network-independent AderoWorld Service backbone. The
agreement will make Adero's global intelligence network one of the largest
in the world. 
	 In addition, Inktomi reported that the UK's free Internet service,
Freeserve will offer the Inktomi Search Engine as its navigation tool. Using
Inktomi's Dedicated Search Cluster technology, Freeserve.net will be able to
combine and prioritize Freeserve's UK-oriented content with relevant content
from Inktomi's leading European and US Web data bases.
	 Inprise reported that Wireless Maingate will use the Inprise Application
Server for their innovative wireless machine to machine (M2M) project. The
new technology can be embedded in automobiles to act as a global positioning
system (GPS) that can send and receive messages to report thefts, vehicle
problems, or accidents. The technology can also be applied to a range of
other applications, including data collection from electric utility meters,
parking meters, and cash machines, as well as detection of low ink levels in
printers.
	 Intel signed an agreement with Telcordia Technologies, whereby Telcordia
will provide the forthcoming Intel-branded Web appliances with Custom
Calling Service support, Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS),
enhanced telephone functionality, and intelligent capabilities that enable
Call Management applications. In addition, Intel and Lucent Technologies are
jointly developing a unified messaging offering for service providers. Intel
will also work with Internet infrastructure company InfoSpace to enable
commerce, portal, and communications services which may be branded by
Intel's customers. 
	 Finally, Intel and Dai Nippon Printing reported joint development of
advanced photomask technologies for Intel's upcoming 0.13-micron process
technology. The new technology is designed to meet the high-volume
production requirements for Intel's future microprocessors.
	 At the company's Lotusphere conference, Lotus Development president Jeff
Papows reported that Lotus will allow rival Microsoft Outlook as an
alternative integrated platform for Domino. Papows indicated that the
collaboration with Microsoft was in the interest of making all the options
available to customers.
	 Web portal Lycos tapped ASP Corio to provide it with hosted business
applications. Lycos choose the applications to help it better manage its
growth. In addition, HomeGrocer.com choose Corio to manage its human
resources. Microsoft licensed technology from FastLane Technologies which
	 enables administrators to migrate files from Novell's NetWare to the
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system. Microsoft will incorporate
the technology in the Microsoft File Migration Utility (MSFMU) component of
its upcoming Services for NetWare version 5 product, expected to be
available shortly after the launch of Windows 2000. 
	 In addition, Microsoft made deals with Compaq, Digex, and Corio to further
its involvement in the application hosting services market. With Corio, an
application services provider, Microsoft will pool its research and
development resources to incorporate Microsoft products into Corio's hosted
applications. To help seal the deal, Microsoft took a $10 million equity
stake in Corio. Microsoft, Compaq, and Digex plan to work together to
develop, deliver and market a suite of application hosting services based on
Microsoft's Windows DNA platform, Compaq ProLiant servers and StorageWorks
platforms, and managed at Digex data centers. Microsoft and Compaq are
investing $50 million each in Digex as part of the deal.
	 Oxygen Media entered into an advertising agreement with MSN's
	 Hotmail&trade Web-based e-mail service. Oxygen will have premier
placement in the Hotmail Women's newsletter and will be an anchor tenant
within its Health and Fitness and Teen categories.
	 Services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) struck an alliance with
InterTrust Technologies. PwC also licensed InterTrust's digital rights
management software, which is designed to enable content providers to
prevent unauthorized copying of their material.
	 PSINet entered into a contract extension with EarthLink to provide
wholesale Internet connectivity service. EarthLink will use PSINet's
IP-optimized network to provide dial-up access to its members throughout
North America.
	 Rational Software reported that it will work with Intel to port Rational's
e-development offering to Linux64 (trillian), Monterey64, and 64-bit Windows
2000 all running on Intel's IA-64 family of processors. The collaboration is
intended to enable the rapid development of next-generation applications
that harness IA-64 processing power using Linux, Monterey, and Windows 2000.
	 SAP unveiled the initial members of the mySAP.com Partner Network, a group
of business entities that participate in the deployment and delivery of
mySAP.com software. Members of the mySAP.com Partner Network will work
closely with SAP to provide SAP customers with software and services.
Initial members include AnswerThink, AppNet, Arthur Andersen, Compaq, Ernst
& Young, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Razorfish, Sun,
and Unisys.
	 Sun Microsystems and Whirlpool reported that they will collaborate on the
development of a home networking architecture for Whirlpool's Networked Home
Solutions that will feature a new generation of home products and services
using broadband connectivity and Sun's consumer technologies.
	 Texas Instruments reported that Ericsson will use TI's DSP-based Open
Multimedia Application Platform (OMAP) in the next generation of wireless
Internet handsets, communicators, and advanced mobile computing devices.
Integration of the OMAP platform into the devices is intended to enable
wireless Internet access, including future voice, data, and video functions
such as digital audio, e-commerce, and real-time video streaming.

Applications Software 
	 Adobe rolled out Adobe GoLive Dynamic Link for Microsoft Active Server
Pages, an extension of its GoLive Web authoring line. The new offering for
Microsoft is intended to enable Web designers and programmers to streamline
their workflows to create visually complex e-commerce and data-driven Web
sites. Corel reported integration of GraphOn Bridges connectivity software
	 into Corel LINUX OS, which is designed to enable the operating
environment to access and run Microsoft Windows applications over any
connection. The integration is intended to allow users to retain full use
of their Windows applications as they migrate to a Linux desktop.
	 Fujitsu Siemens introduced a new version of its middleware software,
WebTransactions 3.0, which is designed to permit businesses to Web-enable
complex mainframe applications and integrate existing host data with XML,
HTML, and Java technologies. Supported offerings include all mainframe
applications on BS2000/OSD and MVS systems, and OLTP applications running on
Reliant Unix and Windows NT with the openUTM universal transaction monitor.
Support for Linux and Solaris is forthcoming.
	 Hewlett-Packard reported European availability of HP SureStore k
rack-optimized data-protection offerings. They are designed for standard
midrange and high-end rack-mounted servers and are engineered specifically
for rack-mounted environments.
	 MSN introduced Mobile 2.0, the latest version of Microsoft's wireless
information service. MSN Mobile 2.0 is designed to extend the range of
customized wireless information services already available through MSN
Mobile version 1.0 by delivering real-time, personalized Internet content
through Web-enabled cell phones.

Chip Technology News 
	 Advanced Micro Devices reported that computer maker Gateway has chosen the
AMD Athlon processor for its Select PC series. The move comes in the wake of
Gateway's announcement that it anticipates lower than forecast
fourth-quarter results due to Intel's erratic delivery of chips and
motherboards during the period.
	 At the Consumer Electronics Show, Advanced Micro Devices unveiled an
800-MHz Athlon processor based on AMD's 0.18-micron process technology.
	 Fujitsu and Fujitsu Microelectronics introduced a new 64 Mbit 200MHz Fast
Cycle RAM (FCRAM) with Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM interface. It features
DLL controlled output, 400 Mbit/sec/pin data transfer rate, and random cycle
time as fast as 30 nanoseconds. Designed for use in graphics and multimedia
applications, the new FCRAM is targeted for graphic and imaging buffer
memory implementations, such as those required for high-definition TVs and
set-top boxes.
	 Intel introduced a 533 MHz Celeron processor aimed at sub-$1000 segment of
the PC market. 
	 The company also unveiled an 800MHz Pentium III, the first of its
Coppermine microprocessors for the Xeon family, designed for workstations
and "front-end" servers. Based on 0.18-micron process technology, the chip
features a 256 Kbyte Advanced Transfer Cache memory with Advanced System
Buffering, a 133 MHz system bus, and on-cartridge voltage management.

Data Base Management Systems 
	 Oracle added security features to its Oracle 8i data base. The update
permits the encryption of data from the PC, through the Internet, and into
the data base, thus ensuring that the information is never vulnerable to
hacking. Furthermore, a business can control the amount of information a
user can access depending on his or her location. The update also includes
new data warehousing tools, and supports Java 2 Enterprise Edition.

Financial News 
	 For the fourth quarter, ended December 31, 1999, Corel reported revenue of
$60.9 million, compared to $67.2 million for the prior year period. Net
income was $4.6 million, or $0.07 per share diluted, versus net income of
$6.8 million, or $0.10 per share diluted. For fiscal year 1999, total
revenues were $243.1 million, compared to $246.8 million for fiscal 1998.
Net income was $16.7 million or $0.26 per share diluted, increased from a
net loss of $30.4 million or $0.51 loss per share.
	 Shortly after TurboLinux won a major deal to provide training services in
China, Dell, Compaq, and other IT firms combined to invest $57 million in
the Linux vendor.
	 IBM established a $500 million global fund with an eye toward supporting
business-to-business e-commerce firms. The company will offer financing on
its own hardware, software, and IT services to upstart Internet firms. The
funding will be conducted via partnerships with venture capital firms.
	 Inprise reported plans to invest $60 million in start-up businesses that
involve wireless technologies, Internet Access Infrastructure, and Linux
applications and technologies. The company's partnering strategy of
investing in the new companies without acquiring them outright is intended
to produce better results by preserving the independent entrepreneurial
spirit of the start-up.
	 For the fourth quarter, ended December 25, 1999, Intel reported revenue
	 and earnings per share of $8.2 billion and $0.61, diluted respectively,
compared to $7.6 billion and $0.59, diluted for the prior year quarter. Net
income was $2.1 billion versus $2.0 billion. For fiscal 1999, the company
reported revenue of $29.4 billion, increased from $26.3 billion for fiscal
1998. Net income was $7.3 billion or $2.11 diluted eps, compared to $6.1
billion or $1.73 diluted eps.
	 An independent review of PricewaterhouseCoopers found that almost half of
the firm's partners violated rules forbidding them from holding stock in the
firms their company audits. Five partners and a handful of other employees
were terminated as a result of the findings. The SEC, which made the report
public, said that its investigation is ongoing.
	 Memory developer Rambus filed a patent infringement suit against Hitachi,
alleging that Hitachi incorporated Rambus' intellectual property into memory
chip designs. The suit seeks an injunction and punitive damages against
Hitachi. For the third quarter ended December 31, Rational Software reported
revenues of $146.2 million, increased from $109.3 million for the prior year
quarter. Net income was $25.4 million, or $0.27 diluted earnings per share,
increased from $18.0 million or $0.20 diluted earnings per share. Chairman
Paul Levy attributed gains to a 34 percent increase in sales, 80 percent of
which were Internet-related. Levy also reported that he will become CEO of
the forthcoming Rational spinoff, Catapulse, which will provide software
development services for the construction of large-scale Web applications.
He will also remain Rational CEO.
	 For the second quarter, ended December 31, Seagate Technologies reported
revenues of $1.6 billion, decreased from $18 billion for the prior year
quarter. Net loss was $35 million, or $0.16 diluted loss per share, compared
to net earnings of $104 million, or $0.42 diluted earnings per share. The
second quarter net loss was attributed to a restructuring charge of $23
million and charges related to the company's investment of $374 million in
Veritas Software, as well as to the effects of stiff price competition in
the marketplace.
	 Unisys reported fourth-quarter 1999 net income of $144.4 million, or $0.46
per diluted common share, compared to net income of $135.7 million, or $0.40
per diluted share, in the year-ago period. Revenue in the quarter declined
4.8 percent to $1.96 billion from $2.06 billion period. Without the negative
impact of foreign currency translation, revenue in the quarter increased
approximately 1 percent from a year ago. For the full year 1999, Unisys
reported net income of $510.7 million compared to $376.4 million in 1998.
Diluted earnings per share in 1999 rose 57 percent to $1.59 compared to
earnings per share of $1.01. Revenue in 1999 grew 4.2 percent to $7.54
billion from $7.24 billion.

Internet 
	 Excite@Home introduced FreeWorld powered by Excite, a free Internet access
service. The service uses technology from 1stUp.com and deeply integrated
content from the Excite.com service. The service requires that a pop-up
advertising window be displayed at all times.
	 Intel reported plans to develop Web appliances that will be resold by
	 phone companies and ISPs. Among the new offerings will be a line of
appliances that run on the Linux operating system rather than Microsoft's
Windows. Intel's move beyond its core microprocessor business is designed
to allow the company to target consumers who do not have PCs, as well as to
diversify the company's offerings beyond the PC market, which shows signs
of slowing growth.
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