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To: Bruce Brown who wrote (26787)	6/25/2000 8:01:00 PM
From: Greg Hull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Bruce, <<Sun will certify other brands of equipment, but the switches they will OEM will be Ancor. The analogy they have used in public settings since their 6/14/00 announcement is tires on a car. They are setting up their systems and tuning their suspensions for Goodyear Eagle F1 GS tires. Other tires will fit on the rims but the performance will not be optimized for those tires. I wonder if there is any kind of official press release or statement from Sun's management team you could point me to that would illustrate the scenario you describe above?>> You are wise to verify. With so much hearsay floating around it is hard to know what to believe. Sorry, I have no link to a Sun press release using the tires analogy. I believe this came from a SSB conference held recently. You might try contacting them to see if they have transcripts available of the presentation including the questions and answers. The best I can do is give you a link to a yahoo message that posted a Research Note by Morgan Keegan on the Sun storage product rollout and its implications to various companies. The report was issued the day after the Sun announcement. messages.yahoo.com "...Sun indicated that Ancor will be the only OEM supplier for the fabric switches that interconnect Sun servers and T3 disk arrays, and is its initially-certified switch in the program rollout. By year-end, Sun hopes to qualify the offerings of the other four Fibre Channel fabric switch providers to enable its disks and servers to be interoperable in all operating environments that may involve servers and storage from competing vendors. However, Sun's management commented that it would develop deeper and unique functionality with its Ancor OEM switch platform. Sun illustrated applications that would entail redundant installations of 8-port switches in rack configurations, suggesting that the volume of switches in this OEM program between Ancor and Sun could be Significant." [emphasis mine] If you find anything else on this matter please let me know. Greg