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To: HDC who wrote (1933)	12/28/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 10934

Duncan - RE: ". IDC recently released results based on the first three quarters of 1999 for the NAS market as follows" Thanks for posting the numbers. It is good to see market share is going up at the same time the market as a whole is going up. Any idea who holds the missing 17.2%? NTAP is up to 86 as of 4:53 EST in after hours...

To: HDC who wrote (1933)	12/28/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

These numbers seem consistent with what we have seen elsewhere. I recall the 46% market share number appearing numerous times. The EMC NAS offering is still empty. No description. "NUMA" means nothing. BTW, NTAP uses NUMA technology for CPU to CPU communications in clustered configurations. It is key to the way NTAP shadows non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) between systems so that if one goes down, the second takes over the failed system's I/O duties without a hitch and hands those duties back when the system recovers. EMC's use of NUMA in a similar manner will not threaten NTAP's throne in the "fast, simple, reliable" world. NUMA is just one bit of the equation. WAFL, SNAPSHOT, ONTAP and other software are every bit as important as NUMA.