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To: JRH who wrote (3419)	6/4/2000 11:59:00 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 10934

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To: JRH who wrote (3419)	6/5/2000 8:56:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

Calling ONTAP a light version of FreeBSD is like calling a Chevy powered dragster a light version of a Chevy truck. The only components they share is the engine block. Everything else in the dragster is specially built to make a dragster go fast and straight. What's different about ONTAP versus FreeBSD? The sys admin interface, the file system, security, network interface, utilities, method of booting, memory management, recovery techniques... You get the picture. I think Sun's intention if to first of all defend its installed base against NTAP. NTAP has been making Sun app servers more efficient by taking the file management overhead off of those servers for years. NTAP has also been preventing many of Sun's customers from not only adding new Sun servers but also preventing them from buying more Sun RAID subsystems. Sun's "endorsement" of the NAS concept could benefit NTAP. If a Sun customer is convinced by a Sun rep that NAS is a great concept, then NTAP may be invited in for a show down. Others will, of course, just buy more Sun stuff because they are a "Sun shop".