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To: DownSouth who wrote (3418)	6/4/2000 11:23:00 PM
From: JRH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

A light version of the OS and a browser based sys admin do little or nothing for performance and reliability This is true, no doubt about it! But it is fair to mention that Ontap is really a "light" (using the world liberally) version of FreeBSD... a growing market for NTAP is the Windows NT market. Putting a Sun server in an NT shop as a NAS ain't gonna happen Good point. To add to that, a growing number or workgroup environments are turning to NT, as I'm sure you know. But Sun has a large installed customer base, and if their NAS solution can compete in performance and reliability with NTAP (and if they have a decent sales staff <g>), they should have a leg up against NTAP in that segment... BWDIK, Justin