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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Exabyte versus DAT tape drives
Message-ID: <1990Dec8.055738.16693@demott.com>
Date: 8 Dec 90 05:57:38 GMT
References: <26755@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <26755@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> rw@ascutney.dartmouth.edu (Randy Witlicki) writes:
>   - Is an Exabyte or a DAT (Digital Audio Tape) system
> better (where "better" == price, robustness, availability
> of device drivers, etc.).  The present environment we will
> be dropping it into will be SUN 3s and DecStations (Ultrix).

    I look at it this way:  Exabyte (if you've ever talked to them) thinks
it's IBM, and treats its customers accordingly.  All Exabyte-based units are
made by a single company with no direct competition.

    There are a number of DAT manufacturers.  They offer a variety of
features, and are directly in competition with each other.  This gives
them an incentive to better their product, and lower its price - an
incentive that Exabyte does not have.  Competition never made a product
worse. 

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