In a previous note, David scribbled:
From: David Drum david@more.net Subject: Re: NetApp 450 end of life To: toasters@mathworks.com Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:09:26 -0600 (CST)
Quoth Mark Richards:
We have a Netapp 450 (the 486 EISA-based machine). NetApp will soon discontinue support for the machine and I'm curious as to what others think of this.
I think it is unfortunate. We have Suns that are six years old that run Solaris 2.6. There is probably an economy of scale for Sun that NetApp may not have, though. If NetApp wants to prematurely retire a hardware platform, they ought to at least do it by buying-out the installed hardware.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net
I've had a 220 for a little over a year (how's that for short lived?) now and have recently purchased a 520. I'm pretty happy with both.
Regarding Mark's question above, I was told by my local sales rep should I ever want to trade in the 220 for a higher end system I would receive a *full* price trade-in credit for what I paid towards a new system. Was this just a sales pitch line to close the deal or does Mark not know that Network Appliance has such a policy?
-Ernie chan@mot.com