Maybe IBM didn't want to spring for extra brochures?
IBM isn't alone. In explaining why EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) has yet to qualify his companys i10K director switch, McData CEO John Kelley in June said EMC is just being thorough in its testing (see McData Cuts & Shuffles). Kelley says EMC is shipping the director under limited GA but has yet to qualify it.
Kelley can only hope EMC isnt as "thorough" about the i10K as IBM and Sun have been with the Eclipse 1620. If EMC starts selling the director by October, as Kelley hopes, that would be nine months after the product launched. Since EMC is McData's largest OEM partner, time is wearing on the switch vendor.
As for IBM and the i10K, Big Blue started selling it as a branded product in March two months after it launched. Go figure.
Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch
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