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HP Moves Hard on Cisco: Page 4 of 4

Over time, HP plans to qualify the MDS 9000 switches for other operating systems, such as Solaris, Tru64, OpenVMS, and AIX, but the company does not plan to certify the Cisco switch with other vendors' storage systems.

"First of all, we don't sell other people's storage," Archibald says. [Ed. note: Errrrrr... actually, Roger, HP resells the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Lightning array. But we think we get your drift.] "We're going to rely on Cisco to work with their partners... instead of duplicating testing."

Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch