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Report: Most Storage Startups Flop: Page 4 of 4

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Source: Fibre Channel Industry Association, SCSI Trade Organization, ATA/ATAPI.com, Company Reports, Dow Jones Factiva Database

And while the report shows that it takes seven years on average from the time a standard is first conceived to the time it is approved, it also indicates that it often takes several years after that for companies to actually make money off the standardized technology.

— Eugénie Larson, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch