There have been some positive murmurings on the EMC/Compaq project.
Its a start, said Steve Duplessie, analyst with the Enterprise Storage Group Inc.. When two of the largest suppliers and competitors move from rhetoric and theory about cooperation to actually handing over the goods, its a good sign.
But many remain skeptical about the possibility of EMC's getting full cooperation from other vendors in the future, which will be needed for Widesky to succeed.
Unfortunately, we think that this will be a tall order," wrote A.G. Edwards
analyst Shebly Serafi in a research note. "Just yesterday, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) told us that EMC would need IBM's APIs to really manage IBM's storage; however, IBM may not be so willing to [provide them]."
EMC's also unwilling to play happy families with everyone. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), for instance, has been grumbling publicly that EMC wont trade APIs with it. To which EMC's Swatik says: The other party has to have something of equal functionality to trade... They have only had APIs for a couple of weeks. Weve had ours for five years.
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