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To: Eric L who wrote (15927)	1/22/2000 4:16:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) of 54805

Auspex was once THE NAS company. Their technology was closed and proprietary. Even their hardware was proprietary. NTAP took the market away from AUSPZX. EMC may buy AUSPEX, but I am not sure they would be buying anything salvagable. NTAP's technology is software based. As new hardware (CPUs, comm, disk subsystems, etc) matures, NTAP can easily adapt its software to support this commodity, off-th-shelf hardware. AUSPEX technology is hardware based, with a modified version of UNIX, but no special file layout method. AUSPEX improved file serving by throwing more hardware at the problem, including multiple CPUs with a modified UNIX to support it. Even their communications hardware architecture was proprietary until at least 1997. I am not sure if it still is. That little problem is what caused their customers to stop and look for alterntatives. (They were years late in delivering SONET and ATM compatibility.) Their comms upgrades cost as much as a whole new NTAP filer--really. As an NTAP holder with no money in EMC, I would love to see EMC buy AUSPEX.

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