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Technology Stocks : Brocade Communications Systems,Inc. (Nasdaq-BRCD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FC_Fan who wrote (310)	11/11/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Bob Frasca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583

Where to begin... "I mean I could offer an opinion based upon your grammar, structure, and pacing, of your post, but then who needs critics?" You are hardly qualified to render an opinion on anyone's grammar, structure or pacing. After all, the sentence, quoted above, says it all. I strongly recommend a refresher course on the use of a comma. You keep saying that the SanBox is not "GA". Presumably, this is some sort of acronym you techno-snobs use that means "generally available". Actually, it has been well documented that the product in question has been shipping since July. A well-known internet columnist documented this fact not to long ago and actually implied that it was evil to ship a product that had not been officially announced despite the fact that this practice is quite common. The fact is, the timing of the test results being released and Brocade's announcement of it's own upgraded products (Isn't it pathetic how they refer to those upgrades as our "next generation" products?) would seem to be a rather lame attempt to deflect attention from Ancor's new product announcement. Finally, your claim that it's the analysts who are claiming that Brocade has 80% market share is an outright falsehood. In an interview published last week, (see link below) Mr. Reyes actually lays claim to 80% at one point and 90% a little later. twst.com I won't pretend to debate the technical merits of these products. I'm not qualified. I am qualified to tell when someone is spreading manure couched in technical double talk. I once got a "D" on a paper in high school. The teacher told me, correctly, that what I had written was a load of BS but she didn't want to fail me because it was well written and I'd made it sound believable. Sound familiar?