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To: areokat who wrote (24977)	5/24/2000 6:58:00 AM
From: Heeren Pathak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Larry has done his masterpiece and nobody really seems to notice it. It's hidden in the three small letters iFS (Internet File System). The interface stays exactly the same (Windows, Mac, KDE, Motif, whatever). Considering there are a number of NTAP backers here. What does this do to the "software" advantage the NTAP has? To phrase it in the "proper" terminology, does this delay the appearance of the NTAP gorilla (or at least make it short lived)? With this announcement, Oracle has a generic file system for all types of operating systems. Consider that Oracle is creating software to run its database without an underlying OS (i.e. putting the OS services into the database itself). With both of these combinations, Oracle is close to providing a generic baseline filer. Granted, it doesn't have RAID support, but that might be the value add that a Oracle technology partner adds.... Heeren