On 04/05/99 15:46:32 you wrote:

NetApp is pleased with its performance in the NLANR bake-off and are sharing our results with customers and potential customers under NDA. We have decided not to publicly release our results at this time because of the late withdrawal from the bake-off by the other major caching vendors (Cisco and Inktomi). Network Appliance does not want to disclose detailed performance numbers to our competitors without having access to their results. Based on past experience we believe that competitors are likely to compare apples to oranges and selectively quote our results as it suits their requirements.

If this is true, it's completely nonsensical. Other vendors *did* have their results published. Why should you care only about the couple that didn't?

Furthermore, the same logic means you shouldn't be releasing any NFS or CIFS performance numbers either, since not all of your competitors do. (EMC, for example, still hasn't submitted new SFS97 results and continues to point to older benchmarks.) Yet this hasn't stopped you in the past. Is this a new policy, or one which you only want to apply to Polygraph?

Bruce