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To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (7731)	2/25/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Lipo -- Just have to drop in out of lurk mode to ask for more hints about your unnamed sources. Few more clues, please. Second optical product mentioned reminded me immediatley that IOMG did a lot of work with optical tech before KE moved the focus to Zip technology...wonder if they are picking up on where they left off, or if this a whole new road?

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (7731)	2/25/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Senthil Sankarappan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Philip, Nice to see some real IOM related discussion here. How reliable is your unnamed source? I am not expecting 100% assurance but are the odds of trusting atleast 60%? This $199 2 Gig drive has been talked for a long time - in fact this could be a Nomai product. I think IOM learned from SYQT not to ignore these and so they might do a preemptive strike against Castlewood. Besides, if this is technically possible by Castlewood, it should be possible by IOM too and i am glad that they are not sitting quiet here. About the 10G optical drive, wow!! that would be cool and could provide some nice margins or atleast compensate for the drop in margin when this $199 2 Gig drive is released. Any technology company should be pushing the envelope further and the most successful one will become a Gorilla eventually. Just releasing one 100MB drive and dreaming that the whole world would go for that is risky. In fact, that dream is possible as long as they have some high margin products in the high end to compensate for the lack of margin in the 100MB side. Cost cutting is possible only so much but potential in new products is unlimited. Thanks. -senthil

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (7731)	2/26/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10072

>>) (Iomega's) Low-cost (<$200) 2GB drive with MR heads. << I first heard about this last August in a published interview with Syed Iftikar, Boss of Castlewood. He mentioned Iomega was having a difficult time designing the drive. I will try to find the interview to find out what else he said about it. Bear in mind that this new drive will kill off the margins that Iomega was used to with Jaz. >>2) Firewire/SCSI based, high speed, re-writeable optical drive in the >10GB range...<< This would indeed be a good product... IF Iomega can introduce it AT OR BELOW the current DVD-RAM drive price. Iomega's optical drive will undoubtedly be a proprietary media (as keeping with Iomega arrogance), unable to work with the consortium Standard of DVD-RAM.