[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Experts at the show seem to agree that it’s a positive move by
IBM, but until it’s backed by all the major hardware players,
particularly EMC, it’s a nonstarter. ‘It’s ironic that a positive
community effort like this ends up pointing to how polarized the
industry is… It’s probably going to trigger an equally strong
reaction on the opposite side,’ said Urlich Franke, a storage
architect in Germany who declined to give his company name. ‘If
EMC’s not part of it, that’s half the market closed to you,’ he
added.“IBM hopes this won’t be for long. ‘EMC has been invited to
join, but they haven’t made a decision yet,’ said Laura Sanders,
vice president of TotalStorage products and solutions at IBM.“This was apparently news to EMC…”