da ice man,
wish you'd stop by more often. i hope you've had a good summer on your big _ss boat. ;-)
i recently asked Qlgc about those magazine tests and i got a response not unlike, "It's like giving a new truck to 'Trucking Like Crazy' magazine and having them give their opinions. Who cares?
The people who DO care are the OEMs testing these switches BY Professionals who do this for a living...evaluating real life problems and designing particular specs to a certain network configuration, even if this config may involve, doh!, more than a few switches. ;-) The magazine articles have zero effect on oems, where the volume is imo. And as we all know, Brcd has been kicking some hootie. Sun will start shipping in volume in the next months so that will start to perk some brows.
Rather than blast Brcd, i prefer to just sit back now and smile and say, thanks for teaching me a lot about how things really do work out there in techland. ;-)
Does anyone think that Brocade may acquire or merge or something in the director class switch? It's an interesting question seeing as there are still only three main players (QLGC, Inrange, McData). This market will start taking off in early 2001, imo. It will not be a small market...
cheers,
pigboy |
