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To: THOMAS GOODRICH who wrote (18909)	10/28/1998 8:20:00 PM
From: w2j2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Tom, Ken said that the MkII-8 is ideal for the NT based SAN. The CEO of Adaptec said that he didn't expect SANs to ramp in this space until NT 5.0 was adopted. Does Steve, George or Craig know why NT 5.0 is so much more conducive to SAN than the current NT? wj

To: THOMAS GOODRICH who wrote (18909)	10/28/1998 8:33:00 PM
From: w2j2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

(off topic) I just heard the cc from uniphase, and they will triple their output of lasers next year, and those are already sold. They cannot ramp fast enough. wj

To: THOMAS GOODRICH who wrote (18909)	11/3/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Technocrat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Last week, there were many questions about NT 5.0 release date and what it may mean for Ancor. Here is my take on the situation. Intel is the giant in this industry and they are panicking. Looks like their 64-bit chips will arrive with no OS to take up the slack. Windows 2000 might very well come in by year 2000. NT 4.0 on the new Intel chips will work but the fit will be poor. The high profit margins Intel demands will require performance that blows away the Pentium II. NT 4.0 will never do this. Note the flurry of recent announcements which marry OEMs with companies like SCO, Red Hat, etc. Sun announced the latest 64-bit Solaris. Below is what Microsoft thinks internally: tuxedo.org NT 4.0 may play an important role in SAN but it will be as a client OS. NT 5.0 may adopt a Linux strategy.