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To: J Fieb who wrote (1087)	3/29/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: GJS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

response to the following posting. To: Maurice Winn (1086 ) From: J Fieb Thursday, Mar 25 1999 9:30AM ET Reply # of 1088 My name is Glenn Sullivan, the Sequent Fiber Channel Product Marketing Manager. I was made aware that I have been misquoted as attacking SUN and would like to provide the following correction. *************** Re: the quote of "Sequent's Fibre Channel product manager, Glenn Sullivan,". In the attributed quote there are only four words that are correct; "because they compete against". The rest of the quote has never been stated. What I have said is this: Getting to manageable multi-vendor heterogeneous SANS will require an unprecedented level of cooperation between all companies participating in a SAN in order to manage revision control in the SAN. Any HW/FW/SW changes to any element in a heterogeneous SAN will require review and approval by all other companies with products in the SAN. I discussed how cooperation may be easier for other systems companies who have chosen to partner with the same disk, tape and Fibre Channel vendors. My comment on Sun has been; "That SUN is not only a system company but is aggressively competing with storage vendors for the storage business. This could make it more difficult for SUN to cooperate because they compete against both the system and storage vendors in a heterogeneous SAN." My above statement is regarding the successful management of revision control and has nothing to do with standards. My position regarding SUN and standards is that SUN is an active member of FCA and SNIA and is participating in the proposals and development of open industry standards. This is something that Sequent is encouraging all companies with Fibre Channel products to do. Glenn Sullivan Sr. Product Marketing Manager I/O subsystems Sequent Computer Inc.