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Technology Stocks : Network Appliance -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: riposte who wrote (5816)	1/15/2001 5:29:42 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Network Appliance Filers Are First Network-Attached Storage Products Included on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List This is good news, when you tear back the covers. NTAP ONTAP is the only non-MSFT operating system and WAFL is the only non-MSFT file system certified by MSFT as compatible with Windows. I vividly imagine that there was quite a battle about this, because MSFT did NOT want to appear to endorse another vendor's file system as compatible with CIFS. I don't know what compelled MSFT to make this certification. The next such certification NTAP would like to have is relative to MSFT Exchange server, which NTAP supports very very nicely. The problem MSFT is faced with here is that the sale of an NTAP filer prevents the sale of at least one NT server. When sold in an Exchange environment, MSFT loses at least one Exchange Server and at least one NT license.