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To: janski who wrote (17506)	7/29/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: THOMAS GOODRICH	Respond to of 29386

janski, That's a good press release on Brocade. Thanks for calling our attention to it. Tom

To: janski who wrote (17506)	7/29/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Technocrat	Respond to of 29386

The announcement regarding Veritas and Brocade was interesting. I am having the same emotions/frustrations that Craig Stevenson had regarding hubs. The winter of '97, I was putting in my two cents that Fibre Channel switching would hinge on Network Attached Storage (NAS), then SAN, and more importantly file system software. This is what is what Veritas sells. On the upside, it would not be difficult to wire in Ancor hardware to Veritas or other file system software for that matter. The Web GUI (Java) for manipulating the switch hardware for either Brocade or Ancor is kid stuff. Would take competent programmers no more than a couple weeks to prototype and less than two months for full production code. This is completely a no-brainer. Both Brocade and Ancor must have been working on this all along since Cisco and every other networking company does virtually the same thing these days.