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To: John F Beule who wrote (8315)	6/4/2001 1:02:01 PM
From: pirate_200	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

> Pirate: is this trend of collecting biotech data a growing part of NTAP's biz? NTAP has sold storage to the Human Genome project participants. I don't recall them ever talking about "life sciences" like they do oil/gas or service providers on conference calls. IBM obviously has both feet in this because they sell compute servers and storage servers and lots of other software tools and services so it makes sense for them to create a "life sciences division". As long as NTAP produces higher performing cost-effective storage and storage management add-ons, they'll continue to be able to sell general purpose solutions into this segment. They may well have sales people targetted or to-be-targetted for life sciences or bio-medical.