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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Switz who wrote (4350)	1/28/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

The Motley Fool Adaptec thread has been mostly quiet recently, but a nice post from it a few days ago responding to a message asking whether Adaptec was still a good hold after the run-up: Prev post gives great overview of ADPT's market. I am in corporate position where all I do all day is purchase new hardware. I don't see FC or Firewire as any competition now or in near future. There is not enough business to go around(in those other areas)Thats why ADPT got out. ADPT is king of SCSI which I believe will be around for at least the next five years. Disk drives will have to get much faster. Also, ADPT has some new pdts coming out soon like Ultra160(160 meg/sec-Thats 10% of 2 gig HD in 2 sec). These new pdts will give FC like speeds & distance and still be backward compatable will old drives. I would hold on to stock. They have made double confirmation of a turn-a-round, they where very dependent on SCSI sales to support their other R&D areas(like FC-Satelite). Now they have become a profit machine by focusing on the high profit SCSI market. I can go on, but you get the point. Mark