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To: HDC who wrote (1493)	10/19/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Mehitabel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

HDC-- you didn't ask me, but IDC on 6/1/99 estimated the NAS market would grow from 540 million in 1998 to 5.1Billion in 2003, growth of 54% a year. IDC also said market development would accelerate in late 1999 as first-tier vendors enter the NAS market

To: HDC who wrote (1493)	10/20/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

HDC, I can really say if the 50% estimate from IDC is accurate, but I have been in the IT business for a while and the number is credible to me. i wish I could cite the study, but buried in these posts somewhere is an IDC or Gartner article estimating the NAS market to be about $40B over the next few years. That same article said that NTAP has about 40% of the NAS market right now. I could not read the article that you posted, as the Yahoo article had "expired". Sorry for being so vague, trying to catch up after being away for almost 4 days. DS