On Fri 14 Jan, 2000, Brian Tao taob@risc.org wrote:

Did the document refer to a product with a name similar to Intel's

(I can't really be sure, neither Word'97 or StarOffice will display it correctly...)

Sales people, if you actually bother to read anything here, do remember that:

1) We're (mostly) technical people here, and are going to have done our due diligence in picking current and planning future systems 2) We might already have some of your product in our current infrastructure 3) We've probably already looked at your product's marketting materials (You can bet we've all looked at the companies present in NTAP's general sector: http://biz.yahoo.com/research/indgrp/comp_storage_dv.html, any company that pops up in NTAP related news stories, and those listed in their own SEC filings.) 4) We might even have had sales calls and done product evaluations 5) If not, you might one day find yourself sitting across the table from us trying to do a sales call.

So do think twice before presuming that we wish to receive a blatant and unrequested sales pitch!

James.