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To: Starowl who wrote (4143)	12/11/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that SCSI's future will soon be understood to have dimmed considerably over the past year. The use of SCSI on a single-drive PC doesn't make a lot of sense any more with the availability of huge, fast and cheap IDE drives, and I think servers are moving towards fibre channel and other alternatives. That leaves SCSI in an awkward position -- too expensive for low end and not high enough performance for high end. The other thing that may cause some problems for SCSI is the rise of the network connected storage device. High speed ethernet may compete with SCSI more directly than it has in the past. All JMHO, of course, and predicting technology trends can be as difficult as predicting stock market trends.