David Rutherford writes:

>                There will be a transitional period in high-end data
storage
>because of HP's deal earlier this month to resell Hitachi Data Systems
><http://www.hds.com/>  storage systems under the HP label in favor of the
>earlier arrangement of reselling EMC <http://www.emc.com/>  systems, the
>company said. EMC has "access to our large accounts, and they could
>conceivably go in there," one executive said. But in the longer term, HP
is
>pleased with the Hitachi deal.
>
>
>What does this mean in terms of support with new versions of MPE in the
>future, if you have EMC disks?

Part of the HP Road Show I reported on earlier dealt with this very 
subject.  I skipped over it because it didn't mean anything to me. 
It seems that EMC wanted more than HP was willing to give, so HP 
went with HDS instead.  The HP speaker said that EMC wanted control 
of the server; that is, EMC wanted HP to use only their software 
to access the EMC storage.  HP is tending toward the "open system" 
concept where you can connect any box to any peripheral using any 
software and therefore went with a more "open" hardware vendor.

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