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Letters: Sun Licenses; NAS; Lab Environment: Page 3 of 3

Steve Schuchart responds: Network Appliance declined our invite, saying its products are positioned at the high end of the market, which our review did not cover. As for RaidZone, though the company probably makes a fine product, it has no appreciable market share. Hundreds of companies make NAS boxes out of generic hardware, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Market share and visibility are often the delineators.

Clarification
In "NIP Attacks in the Bud" (Sept. 4, 2003), we compared NetScreen Technologies' IDP 500 to Network Associates' more expensive IntruShield 4000. However, we failed to mention that the IntruShield 4000 supports four times the maximum bandwidth that the IDP 500 supports. Both vendors offer other products that may be more appropriate for your bandwidth requirements.

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