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To: Mark[ox5] who wrote (459)	2/6/1999 3:51:00 PM
From: Mark[ox5]	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 779

Well looks like our old friend EMC is at the center of this fiber channel thing too :) I am also familiar with LGTO and VRTS at the bottom of the posting... good companies. Tuesday February 2, 8:08 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Twelve Industry Leaders to Develop World's First Fibre Channel Management Standard The FibreAlliance Will Implement Common Approach for Managing Fibre Channel-Based Storage Networks HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999-- EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - news), the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, today announced formation of the FibreAlliance. The goal of the FibreAlliance is to develop and implement common methods for managing heterogeneous Fibre Channel-based networks of storage systems and computer servers, which are also known as storage area networks, or SANs. Already, EMC and the 11 charter members of the FibreAlliance, each a leading information technology provider, have made significant progress in drafting the engineering specification on which these methods will be based. Later this spring, the FibreAlliance will submit this specification to independent standards bodies for consideration as an industry-wide standard. This groundbreaking initiative will provide customers of FibreAlliance members enhanced integration and higher functionality among Fibre Channel-based products, resulting in simplified management, enhanced cost effectiveness and more rapid market deployment of SANs. The charter members of the FibreAlliance are leading providers of Fibre Channel-based hubs, switches, host bus adapters, routers, servers and management software, including: Ancor Communications, Inc., (NASDAQ:ANCR - news) www.ancor.com Emulex Corporation, (NASDAQ:EMLX - news) www.emulex.com Gadzoox Networks, www.gadzoox.com G2 Networks, Inc., www.g2networks.com Hewlett-Packard Company's (NYSE:HWP - news) OpenView Business Unit and Enterprise Storage Solutions Division, www.hp.com JNI, www.jni.com Legato Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:LGTO - news) www.legato.com McDATA Corporation, www.mcdata.com QLogic Corporation, www.qlc.com VERITAS Software Corporation, (NASDAQ:VRTS - news) www.veritas.com Vixel Corporation, www.vixel.com