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To: Brian D. Potts who wrote (3897)	11/25/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Richard Esmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

An opinion from a software vendor... I have been more and more impressed with the technology found in the DST products, but for a software vendor these uniquenesses pose an unfortunate tradeoff. The more the vendor adapts their software to utilize unique features, the more they limit their compatibility with more traditional and possibly less capable hardware platforms. In a perfect world, either all hardware options would behave exactly the same... or, all software products would be written solely targeted at a single hardware platform. Neither is true very often. We (software vendors) have to balance the 'least common denominator' decisions necessary to support multiple hardware platforms with our desire to differentiate our offering by better supporting unique features. Unique features typically only get supported when they solve a specific problem that is hindering the software vendors sales. For example, partitioning is an interesting way to offer overwrite functionality for DoD 5015 compliance. Few software vendors would adopt the changes necessary to utilize highly granular partitioning for a 10-15% capacity increase. Just my thoughts. Ps. I too recieved an anonymous e-mail about partitioning that was quite encouraging. Thank you whoever.