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To: John Wu who wrote (205)	7/13/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: Jon Forrest	Read Replies (1) of 1945

(Although I'm from the UC Berkeley Computer Science Dept. I have no stake in INKT). The reason why INKT is so interesting is that all their products (2 so far) are based on an extremely scalable approach to combining the power of standard cheap off-the-shelf hardware into virtual supercomputers. (For some of the research that serves as the basis for INKT look at now.cs.berkeley.edu). It's this approach that will make them attractive in the future because it's the only approach that comes close to being able to keep up with the incredible growth of the Internet. Note in particular that this approach is something that Microsoft should be extremely interested in since this is something that NT does so poorly. Microsoft has already signed some deals with INKT. I suspect that if these work out, and if INKT can produce quality products for NT, that Microsoft would be very interested in increasing their involvement (whatever that means). Meanwhile, gigabit networking and fiber channel are just starting to appear as commodity products, which will help INKT tremendously since I suspect, but can't prove, that network and I/O bandwidth are their main bottlenecks. Jon

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