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To: Steve Lee who wrote (80972)	6/18/2002 7:51:37 PM
From: ajtj99	Respond to of 99280

Steve, I read an article today about a new storage product that might kick EMC and Hitachi around a bit. It's called "3-Par". There is a big article in the June 17 Info World Magazine on this system. They're a startup "with beta versions already in the laps of a slew of Fortune 1000 companies." From the article: Their Inserv storage building blocks can scale from 94TB to 376TB with a transfer rate as fast as 4,000 MBps and the ability to sustain as many as 100,000 IOPS for a typical OLTP. These outstanding metrics are the result of mesh architecture based on controller nodes - intelligent devices that connect multiple drive chassis inside the InServ. To save floor space, 3Par has developed an interesting modular design, borrowing the concept of tape library magazines to achieve exceptional storage density. You can pack 10 disk magazines, each with room for four disk drives in a 4U chassis, and you can stack four chassis in a cabinet, all the way up to an impressive drive capacity count of 2,560. With this architecture, 3Par components can fail-over to one another, and each component can be hot-replaced without affecting other activities. More.... -But right from the start, 3Par's InServ will offer ironclad resiliency because the distributed InForm OS coordinates the activities of every storage controller, taking tasks running on potentially faulty controllers and automatically switching them to the survivors, for example. Validated by old reliables such as Oracle, Veritas, and Sun and expected to arrive in the third quarter of this year, 3Par's InServ is a leviathan of storage network connectivity.

To: Steve Lee who wrote (80972)	6/18/2002 7:53:00 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 99280

It is more of an observation primarily of the QQQ Level II trades and secondary of this board. I was glued right at 4pm today looking at all the QQQ trades waiting for the Oracle numbers. There is no question in my mind that it was primarily a short covering rally. The longs took profits a few minutes later in a much more "orderly" way. LOL Also, most of the shorts now are not short and hold shorts like from back in 2000 but almost to the point of being day trader shorts. Which is why I continue to play the long side on technical swoon down dips and keep feeding from their fear. The big "easy" profits from the short side were made from Sep 2000 to Sep 2001. The longer this bear market drags, the more scared the shorts get. And I plan to continue feeding off of them. Good luck with your trades. BTW, that's JMHO.