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I know you have previously mentioned that Hu Yoshida from HDS *may* be at the philosophia level and I know that Hu/HDS prefer to partner with companies rather than buy them out. This is all fair enough and quite admirable in the current storage market. However, I cant help but think that HDS as a company may pay a high pirice for this in the long run (I blogged about it previously on rupturedmonkey.com in a pst titled “Big Blue Big Borg” – http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=24). What happens when their competitors come in and buy out their partners? Its quite a gamble for them to bet their business on parter companies that they have very little control over.

I hoper they can make a success of it but I have to wonder???

PS. I once heard it said that share holders are one of the great evils of the modern world – include in this Venture Capitalists

Nigel

Acquisition, let me think … A CDP company? Another WAN replication/acceleration product? A revolutionary storage clustering software company? Not likely, too much ego involved here.

Think of it this way, if the people that run big companies started all the startups there wouldn’t be any, and if the people that start startups managed all the big companies there wouldn’t be any of those either.

John