On 03/19/99 19:26:02 you wrote:

Hey Toasters -

How about: [List of things snipped]

Please excuse the plug, but I couldn't resist.

/Christian Adams Systems Engineer South San Francisco, CA EMC Corporation

Er, I assume this means your claiming EMC can do these things and Netapp can't?

Netapp can do just about all of the things you mention that anyone would *want* to do.

They don't do RAID in hardware, but that's because they do RAID-4 which is better than RAID-5. And they still beat you on performance. Why would you want them to beat you even easier?

When EMC can provide both NFS and CIFS support in a NAS box, on the same filesystem, same files, with coherent locking, which full support of all NT permissions, with a RAID level as easily expandable as RAID-4, with your own OS (not on the back end of a UNIX server), with better throughput *and* response time than Netapp (with published SFS results), for a *lower* price, email me.

Until then, go pick on Sun.

Bruce