Thanks,
You say, Ken said,
<< So on the SAN side I think there's a great future, this year with UNIX,
next year with NTT (?)(I don't get that unless it's either an abbreviation I don't
know or a Freudian slip and he was referring to NTT), again the second half of the
year for both cases for volume >>
I believe he said 'NT', which means WindowsNT. FC switching will work with both, but Ken is implying that the UNIX people (most likely in mission critical areas, I assume) will be using FC switching before the NT guys follow suit.
NT does not currently scale to anything near what UNIX does, but NT is gaining ground and becoming much more common and slowly more scalable. Certainly, FC NT products are starting to ship from some people already, but Ken seems to think that FC switching won't be that much volume for NT users until second half 99. Also, it seems obvious that NT and UNIX products will have to communicate with each other in some places in the future, just as SCSI and FC will too. Please correct me if I may be wrong.
The largest UNIX vendors are people like HWP and SUNW.
all imho
fosters?
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