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Technology Stocks : DSS: DLT finally open for trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Z Analyzer who wrote (239)	4/10/2000 12:02:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 488

Well, I just caught up with weekend reading of various threads, including the Yahoo Exabyte thread. The following comment, extracted from a newspaper article on Exabyte, was startling: <<That should change soon when Exabyte completes work to enable Mammoth 2 to read tape written on Mammoth 1, or "backward read." The company chose to ship Mammoth 2 without that capability to get it into the market as early as possible while Exabyte had a product twice as fast as any of its competitors, Marriner said. >> After several years of harping that SDLT wouldn't be backward compatible, then after months of deriding DSS for not immediately coming out with a backward compatible version of SDLT, and after months and months of yipping and yapping about the wonderful lead time that M2 would have on SDLT, we find out that M2 wasn't backward compatible when shipped, still is not 4 months after it was claimed to have been shipped, and who knows when it will be. Yeah, I know, it's imminent. Isn't it always? Gee, it really did Exabyte a lot of good to ship well ahead of their competition, didn't it? I bought a little of their stock just a week or so ago at just under 8, and feel extremely misled, to say the least. This company is c**p. If SDLT comes out in the summer as advertised, or if LTO comes out as advertised, they are dead meat, IMO. The only thing that will save them is missteps by their competition. I can't believe anyone would ever trust this management again. Regards, Sam