Mission Statement MultiLink Solutions (MLS) will produce the Reliable Multicast Protocol (RMP), a product that provides reliable and secure communication to groups of computers with greater ease and performance than any current software. With RMP's reliability, distributed applications function correctly even in the face of hardware faults. MultiLink Solutions will first market RMP to large companies that need fault-tolerant client/server applications requiring high security (such as distributed databases) group communication on a local area network (LAN). Only a recent product by ISIS Software serves this new market which seeks fault-tolerant execution without specialized hardware. MLS will gain market share by targeting applications that currently require such hardware. Concurrently, MLS will be standardizing RMP within the Internet community. As RMP gains popularity and becomes standardized, MLS will bundle its technology with database packages, computer games and other network applications. MLS intends to be profitable within two years of startup. Revenues for the first years should exceed $2.5 million per year, with a net profit of over $2 million per year. The initial capitalization of MultiLink Solutions will cover the $500,000 operating budget for the first two years. The return on investment will be 100% in the first two years alone.