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To: DJBEINO who wrote (22869)	6/23/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: David O'Berry	Respond to of 42771

Agreed. I do not think anything is as cut and dried as some people would have us believe but this whole clustering do si do kinda blew my mind. If I am not mistaken it was Brainshare two years ago that Merkey demonstrated a working cluster and then whammo, project gets back burnered, he leaves, and lawsuits start flying. Anyone have deeper insight into this confusing situation? David doberry@mindspring.com

To: DJBEINO who wrote (22869)	6/23/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

<<The problem for Novell is that Merkey's technology worked. He had dozens of standard four-way servers clustered together, and he was getting near-linear performance. He also rewrote key NetWare Loadable Modules to show that applications could also benefit from this clustering. Had Novell kept the technology, it would now have a highly scalable network operating system.>> So this great clustering system (with near-linear performance) was not given back to Novell to continue to develop as their rightful intellectual property after they won the lawsuit ? They are just letting Merkey sit around and watch TV until November, then MSFT starts copying his disks ? I don't think so. I doubt the credibility of this story. jww