This sounds like an excellent approach.  I poked around IBMs site while
writing my dissertation, but didn't dig deep enough to find GA or pricing.
I know that Qualstar is building a product based on Ultrium.  Preliminary
pricing indicates about the same cost as DLT which is great.

Kelly J. Lipp
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