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NuView Fills Out: Page 3 of 3

Houston-based NuView, which has 35 employees, was founded in January 2000 and has been privately funded. This is Mehta's fourth startup, having sold his previous ventures to Computer Associates International (NYSE: CA), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HWP), and Veritas Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS) (see A NuView for NetApp and EMC?).

So far, NuView has lined up about 25 direct customers, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and T. Rowe Price. But the company was unable to refer us to one that's currently using version 3.0 of its software.

NetApp resells StorageX as Virtual File Manager (VFM). Mehta says he doesn't know how many customers NetApp has lined up for VFM -- "They just write me a check," he says -- but it seems clear that NetApp will find the software a more compelling sell now that it supports NFS (see NetApp OEMs NuView