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To: Sye Walsh who wrote (27102)	2/20/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 30240

OK, so Windows doesn't have any automatic backup aside from a single undelete. The surest way to guarantee that you run out of space very quickly and reduce performance is to implement a general versioning system as implied by that marketing bulletin. There are better ways to approach this and that's why UNIX does not have a versioning system built into the file system -- the OS that keeps the planet running. When using a PC, there are dozens of easy-to-use products available for the efficient storage and retrieval of information and some of them do this in real-time. That is, they backup up your system onto the device of your choice while you work and without interruption. As for pure versioning software, they're dozens of those products available, too. Is that article setting the stage for another me-too product that will collect dust on store shelves? It boils down to this: upgrading to Windows 95 and using a large disk obviates the need for these spill-over utilities which generate more problems than they solve. There is an absolute glut of storage and retrieval products and several promising companies have folded as a result of that. I see the consumer response as follows: I don't need a digital spillway and I would rather not tinker with a working system. For intelligent backup with versioning, my problem is deciding on which of the many fine products to choose from. Many people have multiple storage devices, yet the system is not smart enough to back up important information on alternate devices. Which is the important information and is that perhaps why there are so many backup utilities available on the market including those which operate in the background as you work? Further, if you corrupt a file there is no general way of going back to a previous version. Regular backups is the standard solution yet most people don't have the time to perform them on their workstations. Even then they lose any work since their last backup. ExpensiveRAID array hardware exist for high end servers but this is impractical for most workstations and doesn't solve the problem of going back to a previous version if corruption occurs. Right, that's why there are dozens of backup products with built-in versioning and many of them operate without intervention on the part of users. I don't get it, there are literally dozens of products that address these issues, what's new here? Windows file storage is inflexible. After you add additional storage devices to your system because you're out of disk space you continue to get 'out of disk space' errors. This is because DOS takes a very simple physical approach to file storage. Just because you have physical space on one drive that space is not available on another drive. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH BLAH. How long are they going to go on about the fact that Windows doesn't straddle information across partitions? There are legitimate reasons why you don't want that to happen. If the system puts a quarter of your document on a Zip drive, half on your hard-disk and the other quarter on a floppy, where does that leave you? Look, get a Bid Disk instead of BigDisk and if you need two drives you can plunk your large applications on one and keep data on the other, quickly and easily. You would be surprised how much more efficient backups will go if you keep your "data" on one drive, and a preferable one directory tree within that drive. Windows is not intelligent enough to recognize where space is available and spare the user from the pain of guessing which files to move and hope not to break their applications. What pain? There are dozens of products which allow you to simply drag and drop an application from one place to another. If that's pain then I agree. Allowing me to control where information get stored allows me to back it up efficiently versus an extremely inefficient brute-force method. This notion that users are struggling with this and clamoring for yet-another-backup product is simply false.

To: Sye Walsh who wrote (27102)	2/20/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30240

Did I mention there are dozens of products out there to solve those problems? I will say this about BD: it's possible that there are enough users with extra hard-disks (upgrade Windows if you can't use a large disk) that may be tempted to try this give-away. It's not at all clear whether you can make any money giving away software, but if that's the perceived value then what choice do they have? They still get paid and the still have product to get out the door. Investors may have a different view. BTW, one of the reasons KPMG (QDEK's new auditor) walked away from this company: negative shareholder equity.

To: Sye Walsh who wrote (27102)	2/20/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Jorgen Christiansen	Respond to of 30240

What is this stuff about RAID Devices being to Expensive and only available on high end systems. Windows/NT workstation have had an option which allows you to format multiple Disks , combining them all into One single Virtual Disk drive. Besides, the way hardware prices are going, who needs any BigDisk product ? My Son has a 4 Gig Drive on his PC, storage is cheap,Cpu's are getting cheaper ever day, RAM storage the same. It seems to me that companies like SYCR bases their business,or more important, their business futures, using old thinking like 'hardware is expensive, use Software to improve you performance'. NO, hardware is cheap, and it gets cheaper each day. The software SYCR spends money developing and marketing today for performance improvements will be Obsolete or no longer needed by the time the hit the streets or make any kind of market impacts, simply because the hardware develops faster than anyone writes code. I know this first hand. We start out bying expensive 25000$ high end systems to write our latest Software, why ?. because by the time we are done coding it, that same system or one similar to it can be obtained for 1500$ or less. It happens everyday, today we use 330 Mhz PII processors, yesterday we uses 200 MHZ Pentiums, tomorrow ? Who are you going to sell this stuff to ?. Kids ?, Nope they are to smart, they know most of this performance enhancement stuff plays around with the I/O systems, thus preventing them from playing their high end games. New PC users ?. Nope, New users get High end systems with PLENTY of hard disk space, for less than 1000$ ? Business ? Same deal... who is left to sell this to ? I suggest SYCR gets off this whole performance software business, and starts developing some software for the next century instead. Like, Browser Plug-in's, Multi Media Inserts, and whatever is needed next year, please no more performance enhancement or Disk Enlargement products.