All this is particularly interesting in light of Cisco's partnership with Brocade. That partnership is supposed to produce products for this space. Brocade declined to comment on this story.
"The move is clearly a snub to Brocade," says Hurley, "and the partnership between Cisco and Brocade is already on the rocks." The two firms are supposed to be jointly working on an FC blade for Cisco's Catalyst 6000 family, but neither company has been very open about how this development work is going (see All Eyes on Cisco).
At 2.30 pm EST on Wednesday, Gadzoox stock was down 0.34 percent at 2.97 a share, while Cisco was down 0.64 percent at 17.9 a share, compared with the previous day of trading. The stock climbed all the way to 3.50 earlier this week.
- Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com
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