[Info-vax] Rumor of EMC shopping itself to hp

[Scott Dorsey]

Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>On 2014-09-23 23:48:18 +0000, JF Mezei said:
>
>> How come disk array business has remained so separate from actual disk 
>> drive manufacturers ?  WOuld have thought that they would have ended up 
>> the same business.
>
>Folks that manufacture bricks have different skills, tools, 
>specializations and cost-models than do the folks that use those bricks 
>to build structures.

DEC had both of them.  But Seagate got the brick people and I don't know
WHAT happened to StorageWorks.
--scott

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