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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1684)	12/9/1999 3:48:00 AM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Here's an interesting article about FC vs other protocols: Is Fibre Channel losing SAN dominance? fcw.com:80/pubs/fcw/1999/1206/fcw-specfibre-12-06-99.html [snip] "The history of battles over SCSI, Ethernet and LAN standards might point to problems ahead for Fibre Channel. Because most of the developers involved with Fibre Channel also suffered through the earlier standards skirmishes, lessons have been learned and Fibre Channel standards "are coming together much faster than other standards have in the past," said Rich Lautzenheiser, strategic marketing manager at Agilent Technologies, a Hewlett-Packard Co. spin-off. Cogut, however, said he thinks the standards process has been "painfully slow" and that even when standards are hammered out, their eventual market acceptance will be uncertain. If there is any problem with Fibre Channel-based SANs, he said, it lies in the slow pace of the standards process." And another article about the new SIO standard and how it might compete with fibre channel.... Upstart challenges Fibre Channel fcw.com:80/pubs/fcw/1999/1206/fcw-specfibre-side-12-06-99.html [snip] "It will be several years before the first SIO products are ready, said Rich Lautzenheiser, strategic marketing manager for Agilent Technologies, and even then it will never completely replace Fibre Channel. "There'll be a sizable installed base of Fibre Channel by then, and we are already seeing a move downwards in the cost curve for Fibre Channel," he said. The first version of the SIO specification could be available by early next year."