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To: George Dawson who wrote (18255)	9/27/1998 1:31:00 PM
From: Roger Arquilla	Respond to of 29386

Speaking of Hucom...does anyone know if Ancor closed the books on that account? (short of paying them the million or so they owe them)

To: George Dawson who wrote (18255)	9/28/1998 8:33:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

To All, I finally got a chance to catch up on my reading over the weekend, and I found a couple of interesting articles. Information Week, September 21, 1998, Page 26. Article titled, "IBM Upgrades NT Servers, Adds Fibre Channel Support". "This week, IBM will introduce its top-of-the-line NT server, the Netfinity 7000M10, the first NT server from IBM to support Fibre Channel storage. New Fibre Channel components for the system include a RAID controller, host adapter, and hub." "Fibre Channel brings IBM's NT server line up to par with recent offerings from Compaq and Dell. In fact, IBM may have an edge because of its experience with Fibre Channel across other parts of its product line, says Devin Comiskey, an analyst with D.H. Brown." "Tutor Time in Boca Raton, Fla., almost chose Compaq over IBM two months ago because Netfinity lacked Fibre Channel, says Todd Dion, director of technology at the child-care franchiser." My comment: Think about these quotes, especially the last one. Tutor Time was going to choose Compaq BECAUSE OF FIBRE CHANNEL! This is exactly what many of us have been waiting for. Fibre Channel is becoming a major tool to drive sales. PC Week, September 21, 1998, Page 10. Article titled, "Multinode Clustering on the Rise". "Separately, Veritas will unveil at an event in New York its new Veritas Cluster Server software, which will manage 32 Sun Microsystems Inc. SPARC Solaris servers connected by switches from Brocade Communication Systems Inc. A Veritas protocol called ClusterStat will enable clustering of up to 128 nodes by 1999, officials said." My comment: 128 Nodes? It looks to me like clustering is taking off too. That might mean that scalability will be an issue down the road. <g> Craig