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To: Beltropolis Boy who wrote (3380)	12/14/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 17183

My comment is a big IF IF IF IF. My second comment looks like the EMC has beens that were let go are trying to get even. haha. JDN

To: Beltropolis Boy who wrote (3380)	12/14/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Len	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

Sure!! I guess it's going to kill EMC the same way Sun/Java was going to kill Microsoft. I see a buy opportunity with EMC. Len

To: Beltropolis Boy who wrote (3380)	12/15/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

......Oltsik, however, doesn't expect leading storage vendor EMC Corp. to sign up for StoreX, and Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard also aren't early supporters. These major storage companies, says Oltsik, don't want to open up their software intelligence to others. "EMC will try to ramrod the SAN market with its own [proprietary] implementation," says Oltsik. "If StoreX comes off, it's EMC's worst nightmare." But that's not certain to happen: He says Sun has only six months to get serious support for the platform. techweb.com ".....Sun has only 6 months to get serious support for the platform." Meanwhile, anywhere from 60-85% of ALL business data still resides in mainframe systems at the Fortune 1000 and customer storage requirements continue to increase every single year. Tough gig even for the swaggering company that wants to displace Wintel at the center of the computing universe.