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To: pirate_200 who wrote (5818)	1/15/2001 11:08:46 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10934

This almost leads me to believe that NTAP is the only NAS company to "offer" its system and maybe some $$, to undergoe testing by Microsoft to get the certification? It may just be a badly worded statement. Another conclusion may be that NTAP put the resources into passing the test. It could be that they had to do some software tweeking in ONTAP 6.1 earn the certification. It could also be that NTAP's unique architecture has the features to pass this test while others don't. This sounds similar to the effort that NTAP put forth to get certification as the only platform supported by the RDBMS vendors for data on an NFS mount. That was over 3 years ago, and not a single other vendor has been certified for data on NFS mounts! I don't think NTAP bought the certification. They earned it. I suspect NTAP said "Bill, here are your specs. Here are our results. Certify us or else." Then Bill said, "but you're results on section 1.2.3 were questionable." NTAP went back to the drawing board, tweeked the OS and came backe with " Well, any more questions?" Another advantage of controlling the internals of your OS and your file system. You can make it dance.