Trendmaster, I am just trying to keep a tabulation of the FC switch wins:
Brocade has Sequent, probably Sun, and maybe Compaq/Hewlett Packard/ Storage technology alliance (although Mcdata is a former division of HP, sold a couple of months ago to EMC, and supposed to have ongoing contracts with HP)
Mcdata has EMC.
Ancor has Bull & hopefully gets IBM.
Hendrickson said there were 10 to 20 major OEM's; they would include Silicon Graphics, Japanese companies (?Fujitsu & NEC), Unisys, and possibly NCR, Adaptec, Siemens, EDS, ...can you add some?
It looks like there will be plenty of business for more than 1 switch maker, and will be in everyone's interest to have more than one. wj |
