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To: Nine_USA who wrote (20465)	1/28/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Bob Frasca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Don't know if any of this was posted here or not. One of the motley fool folks interviewed the CEO of EMC. Here is one of the questions and his answer. "TMF: Your recent earnings press release mentioned that EMC's next wave of growth will really be fueled by Fibre Channel and also your Enterprise Storage Network. Can you talk a little bit about those technologies and why you believe they will become so important in the future? Ruettgers: What we see happening is that the three major operating systems that you have today -- mainframe operating systems, Unix operating systems, NT operating systems -- will continue to coexist for a couple of years, but most of the data that's being stored is going onto the NT operating system. In NT systems, you're getting this large proliferation of data that's out in departments all over the place and businesses really want that consolidated so they don't lose it. And the best way to consolidate storage from all of these various servers is to use Fibre Channel, because with Fibre Channel a server can be up to 10 kilometers away from the storage system. So, even on a campus you can have the server wherever you want but we'd store all of the information for you in one facility. And in that model, you need Fibre Channel. You need Fibre Channel switches to do that and that's why it's so important. "