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To: J Fieb who wrote (3098)	4/16/2001 6:18:05 AM
From: David A. Lethe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

The reason why some members are not listed as DAFS members is political. If certain companies were to officially join the DAFS Collaborative, then industry analysts would pick up on it, and read more into it than there is. I am our companies rep to DAFS, so am probably a bit biased, but DAFS is a real deal, but it will be around Q4 until you will see it as a commercial product. Ultimately the winners will be users and certain manufacturers who are integrating DAFS at the hardware level today for their FC hardware, and the IB camp. If you want to see who is pushing DAFS, and then be able to make an educated guess on who might have hardware, then you will have to join the organization. It is free, but I don't remember if there was a NDA somewhere in the package. Also, the filesharing technology is free, which is the point of it. DAFS basically provides a shared, clustered filesystem which is directly attached to the CPU's main memory. It is fast! The losers will be the companies that sell file sharing software, such as SANergy (unless they can integrate DAFS support). As well as some of the SAN switch vendors, but I believe the impact will be nominal. David