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To: Fang Li who wrote (21428)	4/20/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: Kerry Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

From the latest BRCD S-1A, a partial list of exhibits follows including the redacted OEM agreements with DEL, STK and SQNT. NOTE that DELL OEM agreement is dated Nov 1/98. Question: When was the Brocade/DELL press release? Answer: February 23/99, ie, in response to the naysayers on SI/Yahoo who sound like a broken record asking about announcements on OEMs, it took Brocade 4 MONTHS to announce their deal with DELL. From S-1A: 10.14+ Master Purchase Agreement between Dell Products L.P. and the Registrant dated November 1, 1998. 10.15+ Purchase Agreement between Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. and the Registrant. 10.16+ Supplement No. 1 to Purchase Agreement between Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. and the Registrant dated September 26, 1997. EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT ------- ----------------------- 10.17* OEM Agreement between Storage Technology Corporation and the Registrant dated March 1, 1998. 10.19 Confidential Agreement and General Release of Claims between Bruce J. Bergman, The Bergman Family Trust and the Registrant dated September 23, 1998. Excerpt from Brocade Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., (BROCADE(R)) a leading supplier of Fibre Channel Fabric switches for Storage Area Networking (SAN) announced today that it has entered into a technology and OEM alliance with Dell Computer, the world's leading direct computer systems company. Under the terms of the alliance, Dell has signed an OEM agreement with BROCADE to use the BROCADE SilkWorm(R) family of switches as part of Dell's new PowerVault(TM) SAN solutions. The PowerVault SAN solutions combine both primary and secondary storage on the same high-speed, redundant Fibre Channel network. The BROCADE standards-based Fibre Channel fabric switches and Dell's leading storage solutions let companies maintain reliable and efficient SAN environments that reduce the costs of managing NT storage through a highly-available, centralized storage consolidation and backup solution.