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To: Mark Brophy who wrote (4573)	4/2/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Larry Cannell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

>I2O is being opposed by the top 3 server vendors who have 50% of the market and talks have been broken off with Intel. The other 50% of the market is unlikely to take market share from the top 3, even if they adopt I2O. Could you please provide references to back up this statement? My understanding of the new, competing, I/O architectures is that they all complement the use of I2O. In fact, I believe that a vendor would want to use I2O to remain flexible to be able to move between them and not be locked in to one. Larry

To: Mark Brophy who wrote (4573)	4/2/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 10309

<<I2O is being opposed by the top 3 server vendors who have 50% of the market and talks have been broken off with Intel. The other 50% of the market is unlikely to take market share from the top 3, even if they adopt I2O.>> Mark, your take is a bit askew on this as you misread the NGIO - FIO impasse as an I2O issue, which it isn't. Everybody is doing I2O drivers and all the server vendors work with VI now. FYI, I2O-based drivers will natively support NGIO with no modifications to the Independent Hardware Vendor-specific driver code. Wish you luck with your takes on other stuff. Douglas