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Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 3:50 PM -0400
From: Faulkner Information Services <flash@faulkner.com>
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Subject: Faulkner Systems Flash 09/15/99 - (Part 2 of 2)

Operating Systems 
	 Caldera Systems released an updated version of its Linux operating system,
which is now designed to allow mass remote installations. Among other new
features, the OpenLinux 2.3 distribution, based on the 2.2.10 kernel, also
has an enhanced Lizard install procedure, including the ability to recognize
more sound and video cards.
	 Microsoft reported that its Windows operating system is booting and
	 running on engineering prototype systems based on Intel's Merced
processor.  Reporting concerns about security, the US Army stopped using
	 Microsoft Windows NT as the platform for its Web site, moving to WebStar
servers running Apple's MacOS. The Army's site was allegedly hacked in June
1999.  In busy news week for the company's server operating system,
	 Microsoft removed the Component Load Balancing feature from Windows 2000
Advanced Server and Datacenter Server Release Candidate 2. Alternatively,
the software giant plans to make the COM+ feature available as a technology
preview from its support services and, in the future, available in the
Microsoft AppCenter Server, which is due to ship in mid-2000. While the
removal of the load balancing feature could hinder the platform's
scalability, Microsoft contends that the feature works well and the decision
to make it a separately-packaged but free option was simply aimed at
providing users with more choices.
	 Linux vendor Red Hat expanded its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
training and certification programs, opening addtional centers in San
Francisco and Santa Clara, CA. 
	 Separately, Red Hat certified IBM's ThinkPad 600E notebook to run its
version of the Linux operating system. The notebook is the first portable
system to receive the certification, but all hurdles have yet to be cleared.
Software issues make the system's modem inaccessible, and other components
suffer similar compatibility problems.

PCs AND NCs 
	 Apple introduced the Power Mac G4, its next generation of desktop
computers. The Power Mac G4 is powered by the PowerPC G4 chip architected by
Apple, Motorola, and IBM.
	 NEC reported the sales of a concept PC, Simplem. Simplem is based on an
extension of current concept and ideas such as free layout at home and free
style for ease of use.

Personnel and Organizational Changes 
	 3Com plans to build two distinct companies by making its Palm Computing
subsidiary an independent publicly traded company. This new structure is
intended to enable 3Com and Palm to build on their market positions in
networking and handheld computing by allowing each company to function
separately.
	 America Online appointed William J. Raduchel to the position of Chief
Technology Officer, reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve
Case. The company also said that Marc Andreessen is shifting from the CTO
position to a part-time strategic advisor role.
	 Baan appointed Mike Shinya as President of its EMEA (Europe, Middle East
and Africa) region.
	 CheckFree named David Mangum Senior Vice President, Finance and
	 Accounting. Mangum will work directly with the Company's Chief Accounting
Officer, Treasurer, and Vice President of Financial Analysis, and report to
CheckFree's Chief Financial Officer.
	 EDS reported that it will reorganize into four groups: A.T. Kearney
consulting; the E.solutions group; the business process and management
group, and Information Solutions. The latter two groups are new. The
business process and management unit will process claims and settlements
while the Information Solutions group will handle the management of
outsourced computer systems. The reorganization is effective October 1,
1999. Accounting, tax, and consulting firm KPMG LLP formed an electronic
	 commerce tax services practice. The tax group was created to develop and
deliver offerings that address direct and indirect taxes applied to
electronic commerce. Nilesh Shah, a partner in the firm's Mountain View,
CA, office, became the national partner-in-charge of the unit.
	 Microsoft appointed Rick Belluzzo as Group Vice President of its Consumer
and Commerce Group. Belluzzo will work with Brad Chase and Jon DeVaan, who
are being promoted to Senior Vice Presidents of CCG.
	 NEC plans to liquidate NEC Home Electronics, a debt-ridden unit that
manufactures lighting equipment, computer monitors, and projectors. The
company will also consolidate its wireless communications equipment
operations, which were involved in a Japanese Defense Agency procurement
scandal.
	 Olicom sold its Token-Ring business to Madge Networks. The new business
combination will reportedly be focused on the needs of Token-Ring users
worldwide. Also, as a result of its restructuring goals, Olicom will make a
substantial reduction in headcount.

Regulatory News 
	 The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce passed a $2 million
operating budget during its second public meeting. So far, the commission
has operated using some $500,000 in funding from the state of Virginia and
from the corporations represented on it.

Servers 
	 IBM launched a lineup of UNIX products and programs. Included in the
releases is the RS/6000 S80, using copper chip technology, the RS/6000 SP
for Linux applications, and the opening of four Project Monterey porting
centers.
	 Unisys introduced Output Management Server for SAP R/3, designed for
automatically distributing output from R/3 inter-enterprise business
products to anywhere in the enterprise via the Web or printed document.

Outsourcing 
	 Striking a deal with IntelliCorp, which provides ERP lifecycle management
products and services, Deloitte Consulting launched the Sentinel Program in
North America. Sentinel is designed to enable organizations to optimize
their SAP R/3 software during second wave projects. A UK version of the
program was launched in 1998.
	 Microsoft reported that it initiated a pilot program making its software
available to application service providers (ASPs). Dubbed the Certified
Commercial Network Services Provider (CCNSP) initiative, the program is just
one of the pilots Microsoft is conducting. Though it had not previously gone
public with its plans for entering the rent-an-app market, the software
giant has been conducting ASP-related pilots for over a year. The first
participant in the CCNSP program is telecom firm Qwest Communications.
	 ERP leader SAP predicted that remotely hosted application use could
generate as much as 15 percent of its revenue in the near future. The
company stated that its ERP system would deliver equal to better profits
when offered by an application service provider (ASP) as oppossed to being
installed on a customer's network.

Storage 
	 IBM debuted its Expandable Storage Plus (Exp Plus) disk enclosure. Exp
	 Plus is designed to provide low-cost disk storage for RS/6000 servers,
especially for the 7046-B50. In addition, Exp Plus offers space for up to
ten hot swap Ultra 2 (LVD) disk drives.

Vendor Services 
	 In anticipation of its Coppermine processor release, Intel lowered its
mobile microprocessor prices in both the mobile Pentium II and Celeron
product families. The Coppermine, slated for release in October, is Intel's
Pentium III processor, which will be manufactured on a 0.18-micron process
and is expected to include varying levels of on-chip cache.
	 Lotus decided to redeploy the eSuite development and marketing resources
	 on other initiatives like collaborative computing, distributed learning,
and knowledge management. The Java-based productivity suite consists of a
small subset of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, a basic Web browser, a word
processor, and a few miscellaneous tools such as a personal information
manager and a presentation graphics program. The company still plans to ship
eSuite WorkPlace 2.0, an upgrade to the suite, in October and will support
eSuite customers through January 2001.
	 Microsoft revealed a plan to offer Web developers the ability to pull
technology components from the MSN Web site. The company is calling these
components "megaservices." They include an Internet identification and
payment technology named Passport. The components will also include the
LinkExchange system for exchanging banner adds, the Hotmail and Instant
Messenger communication technologies, and Windows Update, a way of sending
software upgrades and patches electronically.

Web Authoring, Web Development Software 
	 Hewlett-Packard introduced its OpenView Observer software product. HP
OpenView Observer is designed to enable companies to track customer
experiences on e-business Web sites and isolate bottlenecks related to
Internet access. It is designed to capture recent and historical customer
experiences, including a customer's "wait time" and "think time." It also
proactively categorizes technical trends, such as modem speed, user type,
geographic location, and Internet Service Provider
	 IBM reported the availability of ViaVoice Millennium, designed to allow
consumers to more easily navigate the desktop and browse the Web by voice.
The next-generation of IBM's ViaVoice speech recognition software contains
enhanced recognition accuracy and editing. 
	 IBM also reported the availability of a standards-based version of its
Consumer Wallet software that is designed to enable Web shoppers to make
online purchases faster. The IBM Consumer Wallet is available to consumers
from financial institutions. MasterCard International is collaborating with
IBM to distribute the new version of the Consumer Wallet by offering it
through a special program to its member banks.
	 Microsoft introduced Windows DNA 2000, an integrated platform for building
and operating distributed Web applications. Microsoft's programming
architecture is designed to build on existing technologies and tools to make
Web services into reusable, universally programmable building blocks that
can be easily created, combined, and augmented by developers.

Year 2000
	 The "nines" bug, expected to cause problems in older mainframes that used
9999 as a code to shut down, caused very few problems. Many organizations,
including banks, steel companies, and telecom companies, ran tests and found
no problems.
	 North America's electric system passed its biggest Y2K test so far without
any major problems. More than 500 utilities, co-ops, power pools, and
generators participated in the test, which was coordinated by the North
American Electric Reliability Council. Some small glitches were reported,
the biggest of which was a cracker's attempt to infiltrate and post false
data in the the communications system of the Bonneville Power
Administration. The State Department released a report that warned
	 Americans who plan to travel overseas for the New Year's holiday they
could experience problems such as power failures or telephone outages. The
warnings applied specifically to parts of Latin America, Asia, and Eastern
Europe. The department expected few problems caused by the Year 2000 across
parts of Western Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.
	 The Office of Management and Budget reported that the US government has
completed 97 percent of if its Y2K fixes on its most important computer
systems. The total cost of the completed work was $8.34 billion. Nine of the
24 Cabinet departments and key agencies, the departments of Agriculture,
Commerce Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Justice, Treasury,
Transportation and the Agency for International Development, were said to
not be finished with their Y2K work.

		 Geoff Keston

COMPANY WEB SITES

3Com	http://www.3com.com/
AboveNet	http://www.abovenet.com/
Adhesive Software	http://www.adhesive.com/
Allaire	http://www.allaire.com/
America Online	http://www.aol.com/
Apple	http://www.apple.com/
AT&T	http://www.att.com/
Athlete Direct	http://www.athletedirect.com/
Baan	http://www.baan.com/
Backsoft	http://www.backsoft.com/
Bulldog Group	http://www.bulldog.com/
C-Port	http://www.cport.com/
Caldera Systems	http://www.caldera.com/
Cap Gemini	http://www.capgemini.com/
Cascade Systems	http://www.cascadeinc.com/
CheckFree	http://www.checkfree.com/
Cisco	http://www.cisco.com/
Clarify	http://www.clarify.com/
Commerce One	http://www.commerceone.com/
Compaq	http://www.compaq.com/
Computer Associates	http://www.cai.com/
Computer Sciences (CSC)	http://www.csc.com/
ConvergeNet Technologies	http://www.convergenet.com/
Corel	http://www.corel.com/
dbn	http://www.dbn.com/
Dell	http://www.dell.com/
Deloitte Consulting	http://www.dc.com/
E-Stamp	http://www.estamp.com/
Earthlink	http://www.earthlink.com/
EDS	http://www.eds.com/
eOnline	http://www.eonline.com/
Ernst & Young	http://www.eyi.com/
eTranslate	http://www.etranslate.com/
Fuji Electric	http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/
Gateway	http://www.gateway.com/
Getronics	http://www.getronics.com/
Global Crossing	http://www.globalcrossing.com/
Hewlett-Packard	http://www.hp.com/
Hitachi	http://www.hitachi.co.jp/
Hitachi Semiconductor	http://www.hitachi.com/
Hyperion Solutions	http://www.hyperion.com/
IBM	http://www.ibm.com/
Intel	http://www.intel.com/
KPMG LLP	http://www.us.kpmg.com/
Lotus	http://www.lotus.com/
Luminate Software	http://www.luminate.com/
Lycos	http://www.lycos.com/
Madge Networks	http://www.madge.com/
Medscape	http://www.medscape.com/
MessageClick	http://www.messageclick.com/
Metromedia Fiber Network	http://www.mmfn.com/
Microsoft	http://www.microsoft.com/
Milgo Solutions	http://www.milgo.com/
MSN LinkExchange	http://linkexchange.etranslate.com/
NEC	http://www.nec.com/
NetBoost	http://www.netboost.com/
Netline Comunicaciones	http://www.netline.cl/
Netsystem	http://www.netsystem.com.ar/
Networks	http://www.icn.siemens.com/
Novell	http://www.novell.com/
Odyssey Software	http://www.odysseysoftware.com/
Olicom	http://www.olicom.dk/
Oracle	http://www.oracle.com/
PeopleSoft	http://www.people.com/
Platinum Equity Holdings	http://www.peh.com/
Prodigy	http://www.prodigy.com/
Proloq Holding	http://www.proloq.com/
Proxim	http://www.proxim.com/
PSINet	http://www.psi.net/
Qwest Communications	http://www.qwest.com/
RAD Data	http://www.rad.com/
Red Hat	http://www.redhat.com/
SAP AG	http://www.sap.com/
SAS	http://www.sas.com/
Siemens-Softbank	http://www.softbank.com/
StarMedia	http://www.starmedia.com/
State Department	http://www.state.gov/
Sun Microsystems	http://www.sun.com/
Sybase	http://www.sybase.com/
Symantec	http://www.symantec.com/
TimePlex Group	http://www.timeplex.com/
TRW	http://www.trw.com/
Ultimatte	http://www.ultimatte.com/
Unisys	http://www.unisys.com/
USA.Net	http://www.usa.net/
Virage	http://www.virage.com/
Visual Edge Software	http://www.visualedge.com/
Yahoo	http://www.yahoo.com/

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