At 11:47 AM 2/3/99 -0600, Nathan King wrote:
>You're absolutely right Dwight. ADSM Developement really need to address
>this quickly otherwise they're going to be left behind!
>They especially need to get going with Fibre Channel development.
>Although Fibre Channel standards have yet to be set, IBM appears to be
>showing little interest and is instead pushing SSA which essentially noone
>else is interested in except IBM ofcourse. I'm not demeaning SSA - it is in
>a lot of respects superior to Fibre , but the market appears to believe
>otherwise.
>
>Nathan

Nathan,

Lately, I have seen evidence of IBM including FC in their products and
plans.  For example, they sell FC drives, and the Versatile Storage Server
has FC interfaces into it.  I think you are right in that there are other
vendors who have stronger emphasis on FC than IBM does.  IBM has pushed SSA
in the past, and I credit them for getting their SSA products to market
before FC was available.  Now that FC products are available, it will be
interesting to see how things settle out.  Personally, I expect the two
technologies may merge together over time.

..Paul