LT, Z, and Stitch,
Thanks for your thoughts.
It would appear that everyone is getting on the Seagate bandwagon lately. Forbes, BW, and now this week's Barrons has an article on the valuation of Seagate's stock holdings vs. its own stock price. It looks like we're going back to 52 week highs, and, if they can report good numbers again, back to all time highs by mid or end of January, if not before then.
Here's another article on Seagate: Soon, you may have a smart Jini in your house, courtesy of Seagate. From the FC thread: Message 12016250.
Focus On: Jini makes storage smarter
By James E. Gaskin, Inter@ctive Week
November 1, 1999 12:00 AM ET
If devices enabled with Sun Microsystems' Jini technology do take off, users will start generating plenty
of Jini network data as it gets designed into products. In that case, Seagate Technology will be ready with
Jini-enabled intelligent network storage devices.
Home networking between intelligent devices drives up demand for hard disk storage, according to Nigel
Macleod, vice president of advanced concepts labs at Seagate (www. seagate.com). "Digital storage in the
home will be hard drive-based," he says, "and Jini gives enough intelligence to provide a generalized
vehicle to make that happen."
As digital recording methods start to appear in video components such as set-top boxes and VCRs, home
hard drive use will explode. Much of this will depend on wireless technologies, Macleod notes, because
"99 percent of people will not rewire their house.
"The key to Jini success is infrastructure and applications," he says. Seagate engineers believe the home
network architecture will revolve around a system containing disk drives, and running a Java Virtual
Machine and Jini on such disk drives will build the infrastructure more quickly.
"Our hard drive can capture three video streams at once," Macleod says, assuming a pipeline of that size
will exist in homes in the near future. "Other consumer devices have much lower bandwidth," he adds,
making the device doing the video capture the logical choice of the home network controller.
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