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To: DownSouth who wrote (613)	2/11/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

lengthy article available in forbes discusses NTAP and the appliance market. from the url, my guess it's the 22 feb 99 issue. (note the author does have a disclaimer.) ----- A Toast to Toasters A new breed of companies is betting that computers will become more like appliances. By Geoff Baum Forbes forbes.com

To: DownSouth who wrote (613)	2/11/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: riposte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

PC Server Due With Internal Fibre Storage From InternetWeek. Here's a dedicated appliance kind of box. It uses embeded NT as the OS. Note where they talk about a stand-alone storage product. Steve PC Server Due With Internal Fibre Storage By MITCH WAGNER A small company plans next week to introduce a PC server that uses innovative hardware technology to provide high performance and reliability. The Stratas server from Quad Research uses dual, single-board computers running an embedded Windows NT kernel and on-board Fibre Channel storage. It's designed for serving Web pages, but can run any Windows NT application, including database and enterprise resource planning applications and corporate e-mail, according to Quad Research. [TEXT DELETED] A system running the Compaq Alpha chip set will be available in March. Quad Research also plans by early March to announce a stand-alone Fibre Channel storage product. In the spring, the company also plans to introduce its Millennium server with built-in router and modem. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED] FULL TEXT @ internetwk.com