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Technology Stocks : The New QLogic (ANCR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (23231)	7/8/1999 11:38:00 AM
From: nic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Joe, in a future where bandwidth is cheap and plentiful, I can see myself storing data (including snapshots, if you insist) on a server farm across the net, where it's taken care of professionally (redundant backups, etc.). However, given that I can now access this data cheaply, rapidly, and conveniently from anywhere in the world, what do I need a copy on CD/DVD for? And even if I did want a copy (for old time's sake?), why wouldn't I just make it myself locally? Given that the only cost that is not likely to come down by orders of magnitude is the shipping and handling of atoms (as opposed to bytes), it looks to me like in the long term economics will favor remote storage over home-copying over mail-order copying. In short: sell Kodak, buy Ancor... ;-) - nic