[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 70936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30187]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Management Service Providers Association, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 20, 2000, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Management Service 
Providers Association, Inc. has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
are 2nd Wave, Inc., Dallas, TX; Candle Corporation, El Segundo, CA; 
Entuity, Inc., New York, NY; Hewlett Packard Open View, Fort Collins, 
CO; InteQ Corporation, Burlington, MA; iSharp, Redwood City, CA; 
Luminate, Redwood City, CA; Manage.com, San Jose, CA; ManageIT, 
Houston, TX; McAfee.com, Sunnyvale, CA; NCMX, Inc., Seattle, WA; Nuclio 
Corporation, Skokie, IL; SilverBack Technologies, Inc., Billerica, MA; 
Sitelite, Inc., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA; SiteRock Corporation, 
Emeryville, CA; Storability, Inc., Southborough, MA; StorageNetworks, 
Inc., Waltham, MA; TriActive, Inc., Austin, TX; UP 7/24, San Diego, CA; 
AdvenNet, Inc., San Jose, CA; Crystal Group, Inc., Hiawatha, IN; 
DefendNet Solutions, Inc., Providence, RI; Dirig Software, Nashua, NH; 
Easy Vista, Beverly, MA; Envive Corporation, Mountain View, CA; 
FusionStorm, San Francisco, CA; Internet Security Systems, Inc., 
Atlanta, GA; Logical, Slough SL1 4NL, England, UNITED KINGDOM; 
ManagedStorage International, Inc., Westminster, CO; Mercury 
Interactive Corp., Sunnyvale, CA; Selis Networks, Inc., San Francisco, 
CA; Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA; Atlaworks, Nashua, NH; Digital 
Fuel Technologies, Inc., Redwood City, CA; e4e, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; 
Gomez Networks, Lincoln, MA; InsynQ, Inc., Tacoma, WA; Connected 
Corporation, Natick, MA; EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA; Mission 
Critical Linux, Inc., Lowell, MA; TimeBridge Technologies, Inc., 
McLean, VA; NetTasking.com, Singapore 038987, SINGAPORE; StorageWay, 
Inc., Fremont, CA; CAT Technology, Los Gatos, CA; Freshwater Software, 
Inc., Boulder, CO; Access360, Irvine, CA; Nitrosoft Linux, Ottowa, 
Ontario, CANADA; Guardent, Inc., Waltham, MA; NetSolve, Austin, TX; 
Tally Systems, Corp, Lebanon, NH; eNetSecure, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; 
Coradiant, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Telenisus Corp., Rolling 
Meadows. IL; Agilent Technologies--Firehunter, Fort Collins, CO; 
Precise Software Solutions Inc., Westwood, MA; BMC Software, Inc., 
Houston, TX; esavio, Berwyn, PA; Arsenal Digital Solutions, Durham, NC 
and Aptegrity, Fairfield, NJ.
    The nature and objectives of the venture are (a) to educate the 
market, sponsor research, foster standards and articulate the 
measurable benefits of the management service provider model; (b) to 
serve as a forum for discussion of related issues, sponsor industry 
research, develop opens standards and guidelines and promote best 
practices; and (c) to undertake such other activities as may from time 
to time be appropriate to further the purposes and goals set forth 
above.
    Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Board of Directors elects to 
seek and obtains an exemption from Federal taxation for the Corporation 
pursuant to Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 
amended, and until such time, if ever, as such exemption is denied or 
lost, the Corporation shall not be empowered to knowingly engage 
directly or indirectly in any activity that it believes would be likely 
to invalidate its status as an organization exempt from federal income 
taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code as an organization described 
in Section 501(c) of the Code. Membership in the Corporation remains 
open and the Corporation intends to file additional written 
notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-30187 Filed 11-27-00; 8:45 am]
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