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We're One!: Page 2 of 5

Right. Well. We're all for peace, love, and understanding. But come on, people! Until we suffer nervous breakdowns and start writing the sugary pap some people wish we would, we'll continue to call a Canis lupus familiaris a dog.

Herewith, for your reading pleasure (or perhaps discomfort), are some of our favorite stories from the past year.

We revealed that both EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) are telling customers that Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s (Nasdaq: BRCD) SilkWorm 12000 has some serious limitations that don't square with Brocade's positioning of the switch that it does not have the high-availability features to be considered a director.

Our own doubts about Brocade's technical expertise were raised back in August last year, when the company refused to take part in the Byte and Switch 2-Gbit/s Fibre Channel test.

Earlier this year, we published the results of that test, in which only QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC) agreed to participate.