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To: Stitch who wrote (5954)	3/27/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: La Traguhs	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 9256

Stitch, >>Wayne Fortun's comments during the HTCH CC<< The way I heard it (or read into his comments), even though he was spreading the slowdown across the board, which I'm sure he was seeing happen, the sudden layoffs were prompted by one customer - IBM - walking in that fateful Thursday and dropping the bomb on his desk. >>But if LT suggests that High Performance desktop is going away then I disagree also<< I would submit that technology has blurred the distinction between enterprise/server drives and what is being called a high-end desktop. High-end desktop is going to 7200-rpm, and soon 10K, just like the server drive. I fact I'm now seeing EIDE drives used by several smaller networking companies. So help me understand the difference in technology between a high-end desktop and a server drive. I see it not as capacity or even performance - its the interface - and I submit that data indicates the EIDE Ultra66 to perform on par with SCSI, so that will start to blur. So in my argument about polarization, technologically, I see the high-end desktop as a low end server drive, i.e. really one segment from the technology standpoint (again except for the interface - right now anyway!) Regards, LT