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Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J Fieb who wrote (1102)	3/6/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 4808

We need FC applications that showcase the access to data that SANs will create. NAB is coming up. AVID is a solid digital video player. MSFT owns about 9% of their shares and has options on more. Here is what they list as showing at NAB..... Avid will showcase the latesst developments for its market-leading digital solutions for television and film, graphics/effects and animation, broadcast news, industrial/multimedia production and audio in exhibit booth #L22941. Attendees will see the latest technology breakthroughs for the Avid, Softimage and Digidesign product lines: jointly-developed Avid and Tektronix technology; as well as solutions that address digital and high-definition television, DV, stroage and interoperability.. Featured products will include Avid Symphony, SOFTIMAGES/DS, Media Composer, Film Composer, Avid Xpress, NewsCutter DV, Marquee, Media Illusion, SOFTIMAGE/3D, SOFTIMAGE/Eddie Toonz, FilmScribe, MediaShare FC, MediaDock, Avid Cinema, Avid AudioVision and Digidesign Pro Tools. They have had MediaShare FC for awhile.... avid.com What digital video people talk about......... n OMM's case, Avid is trying to set a standard which allows broadcasters' post-production and asset management software to interface and already has the backing of other manufacturers, such as Cinebase, IBM and Tektronix. "For the broadcaster it will mean you have applications which are compliant on both sides. You can select the editor you like and also the asset management software you like best and be able to have the two work together effectively," says Tim Thorsteinson, president Tektronix video and networking division. "We are looking at OMM, and trying to figure out what it means for our world, because Avid's focus is very much directed, at first, to post-production," says Robert de Vogel, Philips' senior product strategist, although Philips intends to support whatever industry or official standards emerge. "We welcome any initiative. Whether that one [OMM] is the right one or not is to early to tell," says Eric Fabianac, Philips' general manager, servers. What he is worried about is that there might be a flood of "ad hoc proprietary standards which will make it difficult to interoperate between them." ....... tvbeurope.com