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To: George Dawson who wrote (27451)	7/9/2000 6:47:48 PM
From: Boonear Siangchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Hi George, I have a couple questions to ask you. 1. Are you still holding ANCR shares ( if I may ask ). 2. After completion of the merger, what will happen to my ANCR shares ? Do they get converted to QLGC automatically? Thank for your answer. BS

To: George Dawson who wrote (27451)	7/9/2000 7:36:48 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 29386

GD., Nice to see it there. The data center will be all rack mount stuff. Here is how they get the SANbox in a rack.... Install Switch Brackets Remove and discard the original screws from the sides of the switch. Install the front and rear switch brackets on both sides of the switch. Fasten each bracket to the switch using two screws with nylon locks supplied with the Rail Kit. NOTE Switch front and rear are opposite of the rack front and rear. 1. Front Switch Bracket 2. Rear Switch Bracket 3. Screw w/nylon lock Install the Rails Loosen the retaining nuts and expand the rails as needed to fit the rack. Tighten the retaining nuts. Place each rail in the rack and fasten it to the rack with screws supplied in the Rail Kit: • At the rear of the rack, fasten the rail to the rack through the top and bottom holes in the rail flange. 1. Rail 2. Screw w/washer • At the front of the rack, fasten the rail to the rack using the bottom hole on the rail flange. 1 2 3 1 2 Thanks for the link.... The director just drops in. In the front of the rack you have this.... Install the Air Duct Box Install the air duct box into the front of the rack aligning the slots with the rail tabs. Fasten the air duct box to the rack using screws through the 2nd and 4th holes of the air duct box flanges. 1. Air Duct Box 2. Tab Install the Air Duct Grill Place the air duct grill over the air duct and fas-ten with four screws. 1. Air Duct Grill So from the front all you see is an air duct? They should have been rack compatible without any rack kit. Who will be the first to qualify the director? This is in the Nitpick category and it is gratifying to see it there, with a kit that will allow it to go into a rack install without too much difficulty. The BRCD switch mounts in a similar manner with an air duct in the front. How much of HWP will be ANCR and how much BRCD? Does anyone know? That must be why BRCD has waged this mind share war..

To: George Dawson who wrote (27451)	7/11/2000 8:45:25 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

GD., Great tea reading on your part.... HP readies second phase of assault on EMC By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 11, 2000, 4:00 a.m. PT Hewlett-Packard will embark on a new phase of its effort to dislodge EMC in storage later today when it unveils a new high-end data storage system. HP's ambition with the XP512, a corporate storage system that can hold up to 24 terabytes of data and typically will cost more than $1 million, is to sell storage systems that will work with virutally every major server on the market, including those from Sun Microsystems. This goal has proven difficult for server companies, whose storage systems typically are used in conjunction with their own servers. About 80 percent of HP's storage systems currently connect to HP servers, said David Scott, general manager of HP's extended platform storage division. EMC, whose server business is secondary at best, sells to servers from all major companies. Until last year, HP and EMC were allies. The market for data storage systems has been exploding in the past few years, as corporations have been inundated with reams of data that need to be kept and classified for easy access. EMC has been making billions of dollars by selling refrigerator-sized cabinets stuffed with hard disks and other electronics; these systems cost anywhere from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $10 million. But EMC's success has unleashed cascades of deal-making and new products among its competitors, the biggest names in the computing world. IBM designed a new system to compete against EMC's Symmetrix. Sun is hiring a "formidable" new sales team specifically to try to win accounts from EMC. Compaq Computer and IBM agreed cooperating with each other was better than taking on EMC alone. And HP stopped reselling EMC products and instead sells its own version of a storage system from Hitachi Data Systems. Another casualty of the fierce competition has been the continuing near-stalemate in the process of setting standards for storage area networks (SANs), the architecture often used to plug expensive storage systems into the heart of corporate networks. While IBM has withdrawn from EMC's FibreAlliance standardization effort, HP has stayed a member. But Scott said that effort has been merely so HP's storage management software can control EMC hardware. "We joined (FibreAlliance) specifically to give us a way of managing EMC Symmetrix devices within our SAN management environment," Scott said. "We do not support FibreAlliance as a standard in and of itself because it is proprietary to EMC." As previously reported, the new HP storage system is in fact a repackaged version of the Hitachi Freedom Storage 9900 hardware. However, Scott said, the HP version uses different internal programming and software that gives it different performance characteristics and capabilities. HP claims the XP512 performs better than EMC's new top-end Symmetrix 8000. That performance, coupled with management features, means HP won't be charging less for its products than EMC charges, Scott said. However, Illuminata analyst John Webster said HP and Hitachi could be more flexible if sales don't take off as hoped. "The people selling the Hitachi box will certainly try to keep prices up over the next three months. If they're not successful doing that, I would expect some price concessions to come around November or December," he said. HP has sold $500 million worth of XP256 machines in the year after it dumped EMC and switched to Hitachi systems, Scott said. HP achieved this in 12 months--six months ahead of schedule. The $500 million goal means that HP has caught up to its revenue level in 1999 when it dropped EMC. Webster said he believes HP has done reasonably well regaining some of the position it lost when it dumped EMC. "I think that they've done a good job catching up. It's sort of an uphill climb when you have to climb back into an account after you ceded that market to someone who has now become your competitor." HP is aiming the XP512 at customers who use Sun servers at application service providers and large data centers. These customers can benefit from storage systems that can be easily managed but also partitioned into different sections for different users. The XP512 has a starting price of $600,000 and is available today.

To: George Dawson who wrote (27451)	7/11/2000 1:31:27 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 29386

ANCR got qualified in time for equal billing with that other company..... HP Ushers in Next-generation Storage Consolidation for Service Providers and Data Centers Enables Stress-free Service Level Management PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000--Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced Sun Solaris support for storage consolidation, meeting e-services customer demand for an Internet infrastructure that delivers industry-leading scalability, efficient manageability and high availability. The new offering is based on HP SureStore E XP Disk Arrays and HP SureStore E Tape Libraries. HP also broadened its Open Storage Area Network (SAN) initiative, enhancing its Web-based SAN management tools and adding strategic interoperability vendors. In addition, HP unveiled the eagerly awaited XP512 system. Solaris Consolidation Solution Expanding on its storage-consolidation leadership in HP-UX(1) and Windows NT®, HP now offers expanded management tools, high availability, backup, support and services for Sun Solaris environments. System administrators can now centralize resource management of their XP disk arrays with SAN and data-center management tools. This is accomplished through HP SureStore E Command View XP, a Web-based graphical management interface that is integrated with HP SureStore E SAN Manager Device Management (DM). Integration with HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations and ServiceNavigator, which use HP OpenView SMART Plug-In for XP disk arrays, provides the best end-to-end service level management capability in the industry. To eliminate planned and unplanned downtime in Solaris consolidation environments, HP is adding high-availability clustering as well as zero downtime backup solutions for the XP disk arrays. To further customers' consolidated-backup capabilities, HP tape libraries now back up Solaris-based applications in direct server-connect or in SAN configurations. HP also introduced improved support and manageability of its high-end, multiplatform 10/180 and 20/700 tape libraries with an embedded, Web-based remote management tool. Completing these Solaris solutions are multivendor SAN, consolidation and disaster recovery design and implementation services from HP. ``Service providers, dot-coms and `click and mortar' companies need a complete, mission-critical, storage-consolidation solution to manage their mixed HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows NT server environments,'' said David Scott, general manager of HP's Extended Platform Storage Operation. ``HP can now provide them with the strongest solution, offering them best-in-class service level management to meet their needs in today's explosive information-driven economy.'' Expanded Open SAN Leadership The HP SAN Manager DM now includes an NT management station, multiplatform support and dynamic device management. In addition, HP introduced a Software Developer's kit enabling any vendor to write device managers for SAN Manager DM. HP's Open SAN initiative includes additional multivendor host, storage and fabric interoperability. Most significantly, HP offers fabric interoperability with infrastructure components from Ancor (SANbox 8- and 16-port) and BROCADE (SilkWorm 2800 and now the 2400) to provide customers with flexibility and choice of fabric providers. Most Advanced Enterprise Architecture In response to the explosive growth of service providers and dot coms, HP delivers the XP512. Offering a large scalability advantage over the competition, the XP512 integrates the most cutting-edge storage architecture in the industry with an advanced end-to-end fibre-channel SAN solution with HP Equation. In addition, HP offers the NetStorage XP enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution for e-commerce customers handling the exploding requirements of information-storage for Web and content caching. The XP512 offers high-capacity scalability with up to 512 disks, 24TB (with 47 GB drives) and 928 host connects when used in a switched SAN configuration. The system, which builds on its intelligent storage architecture with no single point of failure, provides customers with scalable performance through an internal 6.4GB/s crossbar switch and 32GB fully mirrored cache. The XP512 supports Fibre Channel, ESCON and SCSI host attach. U.S. Price and Availability Configurations of the XP512 range in price from $600,000 to several million and are available today. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at hp.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Cunningham Communication