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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