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To: Sam who wrote (2574)	2/26/1998 3:31:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

I continue to wonder about Fiber Channel and whether it will have the success that was eluded to about 1 year ago. It seems to have failed to meet the mark, or maybe the notion that a single fiber channel player would make lots of money was wrong. Anyway, there was a time when Ancor was a darling. This news seems to look interesting. Seagate Executive Joins Ancor Communications New director to manage OEM and storage products MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancor Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCR - news), the leading manufacturer of ANSI standard Fibre Channel connectivity products, announced today that Craig Frane has joined the company as Director of Product Management. Frane will direct Ancor's expansion in fast-growing Fibre Channel storage connectivity areas, focusing on OEM customer development, storage product development and industry partnerships. He joins Ancor from Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, Calif., where he was senior director of marketing and planning. Before joining Seagate in 1989, Frane was director of strategic planning for Control Data Corporation, Bloomington, Minn. According to Ancor's Vice President of Marketing, Carla Kennedy, ''Frane brings a wealth of experience in the high-performance storage arena. But more importantly, he has the vision, relationships and proven track record to leverage our Fibre Channel engineering expertise to the OEM customer marketplace.'' At Seagate, Frane directed market, competitive and technical analysis for high-performance disk drive products, and was part of the team that grew the company into the world-leading supplier in the high-end disk business. Since 1994, Frane also was active in the development of Fibre Channel technology for Seagate's storage products. About Fibre Channel Fibre Channel is an ANSI-standard, high-speed, low-latency data communications technology that provides gigabit-per-second transmission rates in storage/server environments and high-performance networks. Ancor GigWorks(TM) products combine the speed and simplicity of channels with the flexibility of networks to solve bandwidth problems caused by the transfer of large data files among storage, server and client nodes in high-performance compute environments. Ancor Fibre Channel products provide optimal speed and throughput for data-intensive applications such as shared storage, CAD/CAM, visualization, data mining and file backup. About Ancor Communications Ancor Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCR - news) provides GigWorks(TM) high-performance storage and data-intensive network solutions based on Fibre Channel technology. The company was the first to deliver a Fibre Channel switch, and the first to top the one-gigabit performance level. In addition to Fibre Channel switches, Ancor products also include adapters and connectivity solutions. Ancor is a member of the Fibre Channel Association, Fibre Channel Loop Community, the ANSI Standards Committee and the University of New Hampshire Fibre Channel Consortium to promote the advancement of Fibre Channel standards and interoperability. Information on Ancor is available on the World Wide Web at ancor.com.

To: Sam who wrote (2574)	2/27/1998 4:57:00 AM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Sam, I long ago abandoned Dell and Compaq because I figured with thousands of PC producers, PCs were much more a commodity than DDs. Who would have known these two could be so successful in a commodity business. If Dell has now nearly optimized the perfect production plan (and can double it every 12 months), how hard can it be for a major company to replicate. I read in one post that box asssembly only required 11 minutes. When I heard an Alex Brown broker refer to Dell's production methods as proprietary, I knew the end was near. Anyone should be able to copy. That was many, many points ago.