You could probably find retail space available at one of the 38 Gateway Country stores that they announced plans to close recently... ;-)

Come to think of it, there's no way NetApp management would sign off on it. You wouldn't make the same kind of profit (clothing retail is pretty cut throat, I understand), and shareholders would not stand for overall gross margins dropping below XX% (unless EMC's dropped, too) [1]. Oops, shareholder opinion may be a touchy subject nowadays...

[1] Sanitized gross margin figure in case this is a touchy matter to anyone; if it really matters to you the information is public and easy to find; the way I see it NetApp can only charge for their product what the market will bear, so no you didn't pay too much.

Joe

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-----Original Message----- From: Mohler, Jeff [mailto:jeff.mohler@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:16 PM To: Benn, Paul; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: How would you respond to this -Reply

I still think we need a company store...*chuckle*

-----Original Message----- From: Benn, Paul [mailto:paul.benn@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:16 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: How would you respond to this -Reply

Gee, NetApp clothing must be valuable. I've seen a few items on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1227231380

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1227655648

-----Original Message----- From: Gavin Kelman [mailto:gavin@husky.muscat.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:11 AM To: Timothy Cook Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: How would you respond to this -Reply

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:35:16AM -0400, Timothy Cook wrote:

Maybe I'm missing out on the really important aspect of netapps???

For the benefit of you netapp guys who monitor this board, I wear an Extra

Large.

Just out of interest, can you get ahold of netapp clothing out with them giving you the odd t-shirt at meetings and sales opportunites? My single netapp t-shirt is wearing thin... :)