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To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (9905)	2/8/2001 10:42:58 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 13572

Nice going, very big congrats. Looks like your best portfolio move of all was, "Also lucky to have the same wife for 30 years so I have kept my divorce costs down." <g>. Keep up the good work.

To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (9905)	2/8/2001 10:51:59 PM
From: McNabb Brothers	Respond to of 13572

DH, Thanks for the story that ended happily forever after! My wish for you and yours is to continue to live happier each and everyday for the rest of your lives. My story is a 42 year old married to Robyn age 34 for 8 years and also the first marriage for both of us. Two very wonderful children, a girl Hannah age 6 1/2 and a boy born on my birthday Henry III age 4 1/2. Third generation Funeral Home owner along with my brother Mike in NE Arkansas which is beginning it's 75th year this year. I started investing at the age of about 15 and have loved it since. I have tried everything in the book, but have found that the best way to invest is for the long term, but have to admit the last few years as things change faster I'm not sure what long term is anymore. >VBG< I do manage a few accounts for a few individuals and have done quite well over the years. Also own an interest in a cemetery, rental property, and a printing company called Pin Point Printing in Jonesboro, Ar.. I wake up everyday and wonder why I'm doing so much, but then remember this is what I like to do in life and seems to be my hobby as well. I guess what scares me more than anything now is how most people want it all in a matter of a few days or weeks and are not looking out over the mountains that do arise now and then before them. One has to cross a number of mountains in life to appreciate the down slope on the other side. I do not care what kind of market we are in now, for I will continue to accumulate good quality stocks and hold them for the long haul. Hank

To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (9905)	2/8/2001 11:25:52 PM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 13572

thats a great story, Greg

To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (9905)	2/9/2001 11:03:55 AM
From: bowledover	Respond to of 13572

DHaaland, thanks for telling us 'how it happened.' Very interesting and very 'telling' I thought. Seems like a genuine mix of intelligence, prudence, courage and good luck. And if you had not made any mistakes what would that mean!? bowledover

To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (9905)	2/12/2001 5:09:25 AM
From: D.B. Cooper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13572

Dell, NetApp to roll out competing storage devices By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 11, 2001, 9:00 p.m. PT Dell and Network Appliance, former allies in the market for special-purpose storage devices, will introduce competing products Monday. Dell will introduce its PowerVault 735N, a single- or dual-processor storage system designed to connect via ordinary computer networks. Dell designed and builds the network-attached storage (NAS) machine, unlike the Quantum-designed PowerVault 705N. At the same time, Network Appliance, the leading seller of NAS products, will introduce new mid-range and low-end products and all but phase out models based on Compaq's Alpha chip in favor of the less-expensive Intel Pentium III. Dell and Network Appliance once were allies, with Dell selling NetApp products under its own name. But the companies parted ways last year. Dell believes it can make more money selling its own products. The new Dell 735N uses a version of Windows 2000 Advanced Server with many unnecessary components removed to increase performance, said Dan Blizinski, who heads Dells NAS product development. It's designed to fit chiefly into networks of Windows machines but can communicate with Macintosh and Unix machines as well. The 735N comes with advanced software features that allow the machine to take snapshots of the file system and allow one machine's files to be mirrored on other systems, Blizinski said. The device has room for as much as 1.44 terabytes of data. Prices range from $9,999 to about $41,000. The NetApp machine, the F820, is a lower-end sibling to the F840 that replaces NetApp's F760, said Chris Bennett, director of hardware products at NetApp. Where the F840 can store as much as 6 terabytes of data, or 12 when paired in a cluster of two machines, the F820 can hold 3 terabytes or 6 in the clustered configuration. Although Dell is a competitor, NetApp is aimed mostly at taking market share from EMC, which sells more expensive storage systems, Bennett said. A F840 with 2 terabytes of space, a typical configuration, costs about $212,000, NetApp said. The company also introduced a new low-end product, the F85, designed for branch offices of large corporations and costing about $17,400 for a typical configuration with 216GB of capacity. NetApp also introduced a caching server with 486GB capacity that helps customers distribute data stored on a central server to "caches" of information scattered across the Internet. A typical C3100 caching server, the company's new mid-range product, costs about $40,000, the company said. NetApp is following its "center-to-edge" strategy--selling the central data storage devices as well as the remote caching systems and the software used to manage the whole network. The strategy has been key to winning new customers, executives said during a financial conference call Thursday.