Dave:
It seems to me that innuendo and insinuation, pointed at your competitors, is not quite worthy of an officer of a company proudly claiming the position of market leadership. As much as I am trying to justify your remark in a context of levity, the continuation of this thread (below) seems to have pushed to the point where it is embarrassing and demeaning.
Yael Melman at EMC was not even aware of the existence of this mailing list. (Now she is, of course; BTW, the name Yael, two syllables, ya-'el, is originally a Hebrew name, always uni-gender.) Perhaps the actual Yael Hellmann would eventually come out and dispel the affiliation mystery...
However, that's very much a moot point, even if, contrary to evidence, we assumed that Ms. Hellmann worked for EMC. The actual indictment by innuendo in this thread was that EMC was inimical to NAS, since, allegedly, EMC was exclusively a SAN company. This is simply untrue: EMC is the fastest growing vendor in the NAS market.
Percy
On 23 Mar 00, at 9:58, Dave Hitz wrote:
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<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> (Hey Yael! Are you the same Yael Hellmann who works at EMC?)
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Dave
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>On 23 Mar 00, at 13:06, Keith Brown wrote:
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<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> We do need to clear up this last name thing though, because Yael
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> would look more than a little silly if he'd got that wrong on his
Yahoo sign-up page . I mean... What next? A false beard? A blond
wig, evening gown and high heels? No... I'm sure this was just a
mistake, and probably yours Christian, right? We all make mistakes, and you're usually so conscientious about getting your facts
straight here.
So to show that there was clearly no malicious intent, is it
Melmann or Hellmann? Also, in order that we can all get some
perspective on any vested interests that might have been behind
young Yael's comments trashing network attached storage, perhaps
you could tell us what he does for EMC? That would be both helpful
and enlightening.
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From: Percy Tzelnic To: Dave Hitz Cc: keith@netapp.com ; yael_hellmann@yahoo.com ; >Adams_Christian@emc.com ;
toasters@mathworks.com
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: nas storage
Dave:
It seems to me that innuendo and insinuation, pointed at your competitors, is not quite worthy of an officer of a company proudly claiming the position of market leadership. As much as I am trying to justify your remark in a context of levity, the continuation of this thread (below) seems to have pushed to the point where it is embarrassing and demeaning.
Percy:
Dave doesn't run this list. Unlike some competitors, NTAP encourages open discussion about its products. Dave didn't insinuate anything in his comments; most of what you are complaining about were comments by Keith Brown.
Yael Melman at EMC was not even aware of the existence of this mailing list.
Personally I find it difficult to believe that any higher-up at EMC isn't aware of an mailing list about Netapp, but in any event, who cares? Dave asked a question and got an answer. There's no need to defend Yael by giving her an allibi. Methinks the lady doth protest too much!
However, that's very much a moot point, even if, contrary to evidence, we assumed that Ms. Hellmann worked for EMC. The actual indictment by innuendo in this thread was that EMC was inimical to NAS, since, allegedly, EMC was exclusively a SAN company. This is simply untrue: EMC is the fastest growing vendor in the NAS market.
Looking over the thread again, I don't see any implication that EMC was exclusively SAN. However, I'm sure any objective person would agree that in the past, EMC has badmouthed NAS and pushed SAN as the way to go. Recently, the CEO admitted that NAS was what customers wanted and we are all now aware that EMC is trying to push deeper into the NAS space and had to buy someone else's product to do so, rather than roll their own NAS product. Of course EMC is the fastest growing; increasing sales from 0 to a positive number is a big increase in percentage! Netapp, of course, still remains the market leader in NAS.
The person who vaguely implied that EMC was exclusively SAN (and actually, all I said is "SAN is dead") was myself, not Dave. And frankly, what I do or do not say on this list is none of your damn business.
Bruce
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