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To: Chris O'Connor who wrote (323)	7/12/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 10934

>I believe that INKT also has the Hotbot search engine. This is why the price has gone up so far and so fast. Excellent point. >in the cache area, isn't NTAP more of a hardware based solution and INKT is more in the software area of this field? NTAP sells a software solution, called NetCache, which is the next generation of caching based on a company they bought a couple of years ago. (I can't remember the name of the company. At the time, that company had the lion's share of the proxy serving market.) NetCache runs on UNIX and NT. The hardware packaged version that NTAP sells has NetCache running on NTAP's file server. That combination of software preloaded on a specialized hardware package makes it an "appliance". Take a look at an earlier post describing the relative growth predicted for caching software versus caching appliance solutions. If you are really interested or are investing in NTAP, I suggest you have a look at NTAP's web page. It is very good. It is also very fast--wonder why? netapp.com