All,

  So that you can hear it first from the horse's mouth, I wanted to update
ya'll with a change in the ship date for Optivity NMS 9.0:

* Optivity NMS 9.0 for Solaris and NT is now scheduled for general
availability on April 30, '99.

* Optivity NMS 9.0 for HP-UX and AIX is scheduled for general availability
on July 09, '99.

  All other information about features, supported O.S. versions, and
supported platform versions remains the same.  Only the ship date has
changed.  Confidence level these dates is currently at 90%.

Thanx,

-David J. Easter
Sr. Product Manager - Optivity NMS, Network Management Division
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