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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (1251)	4/16/1999 7:12:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Scott, good point re not knowing where the FC money is yet if you're talking pure plays. Some of the larger storage cos are growing and selling their own branded total solutions now, some by repackaging FC components, at the disrete function level, which are made by others. Nothing really new there, but it shuts out the pures from a lot of potential business. EMC comes to mind in this regard. Frank

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (1251)	4/17/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Hi Scott! Can you explain how "Object Routing" works? >>>>>>followed both Fibre Channel and SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) for a while and was much more impressed with SSA. IBM has been shipping it for quite sometime now ... 1) I think Fibre Channel's unique ability to work with so many different types of networks, its latency, and many of its other qualities combined with its backing by the majority of storage suppliers makes it a technology that with open standards can become extremely pervasive. I think technologies that have fences around them cannot multiply fast enough on the wide open prairies of the "Internet World" to keep up, dominate, and become ubiquitous. 2) I think Fibre Channel will take off next year. As Fibre Channel interoperability improves, at some point the economies of scale on production, will drive the price down to the point where it will explode onto "the scene" of the average-Joe. My fingers are crossed waiting for something to happen here. I hope I am right. Joe W.

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (1251)	4/19/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Thanks again for your post on Kurzweil. When you search Ray Kurzweil's name on Alta Vista, under Penguin Books, there are some parts of his book, "The Age of Spiritual Machines," posted on the internet. I plan to read the whole book, but my initial comments from what I have read, are, that it is very thought provoking. I am looking forward to reading more to see if he discusses bioengineering. I think this could be the variable, that balances out Mr. Kurzweil's concern about the chessboard scenerio, where we are entering the second half of the chessboard in the exponential progression of computing. As computing power progresses, man will be able to focus that power of computing on reengineering himself, to develop super humans. Who knows, maybe, if as in Mr.Kurzweil's book, ultra intelligent computing networks/computers become self aware, it will create a human crisis that leads to pulling out all the stops, and having an all out war of bioengineering to keep the human race smart enough to outmaneuver machines. If in fact, someday, machines can think, maybe they will try to instantiate themselves into bioengineered humans, so they could try to become human. Maybe it would result in a hybrid, human machine. It would make a good movie anyways! I am looking forward to reading the rest of Mr. Kurzweil's book. Thanks again! Joe W.