Surely it feels like a failure, but we'll see.

The 'spin' on the situation is not good.

-----Original Message----- From: sirbruce@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 11:14 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: IRCACHE Web Cache Bakeoff?

Can anyone at Netapp tell us what happened with the ircache web cache bakeoff? Netapp attended and then declined to have their results published. Many other companies backed out as well, such as Cacheflow and IBM. Rumor has it that netcache was outperformed; was the benchmark unrealistic or did Netapp withdraw for other reasons?

Bruce