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Startup: 'Shut Up!': Page 3 of 4

Nilesh Shah, founder, chairman, and CEO of Confluence, was joint founder of Yago Systems, a silicon-based switch router company which was bought by Cabletron Systems Inc. (NYSE: CS) for $210 million in 1998. Prior to Yago, he was a founder of Kalpana Systems, bought by Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) for $200 million.

Kumar Gajjar, VP of software engineering, was previously the founder and CTO of SmartSAN Systems, which Gadzoox Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: ZOOX) bought for $23.5 million.

On the board of directors is Allen Beasley, general partner with Redpoint Ventures, and Robert T. Coneybeer, general partner, New Enterprise Associates. And, last but not least, Jayshree Ullal, group VP at Cisco, is acting as strategic advisor to the company.

While reluctant to talk about his own affairs, Davis (whose copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is apparently gathering dust somewhere) had some choice words for other storage networking startups:

    "Confluence is going to be here for a long time (unlike many others you write about)..."

Time will tell.