Retrospect continues ...

[zulch_larry at emc.com]

Greetings, Retro-talk list:

I wanted to address some of the changes in EMC Insignia that have
recently been discussed in this forum. Before I do, though, I want to
thank each of you for your use and support of Retrospect. It has been
more than 22 years since my brother Richard and I founded Dantz.

For the last couple of years, we've used the Dantz / Retrospect team's
expertise to broaden EMC's presence in small and medium business. We've
helped develop and sell storage array hardware and storage resource
management, replication, and collaboration software. They are good
products and will now be supported by the original teams that owned
them. I look at that as incubation work that is now complete.

Pulled out of that much larger team is a core group that has recently
been assembled to focus exclusively on Retrospect. In that team are some
of the very best people we had at Dantz, such as Laurie Gill, an
engineer and 18-year veteran who knows every nook and cranny of
Retrospect and kept the Macintosh version going when we neglected it;
Greg Wang, in QA and hardware support since 1999; Matt Johnson, who has
been driving sales through more changes than you can imagine; Robin
Mayoff, who joined Dantz in 1994, running tech support and keeping a
presence online; Julie Heck, in charge of marketing, and a host of
others, all under John Palmer, who was head of operations for EMC
Insignia and someone that I came to trust, and more, to admire.

These people, this team, is highly motivated and completely dedicated to
your and Retrospect's success. They have something to prove, and I hope
you'll give them a chance to do so. Out of that could come their and my
fondest wish, which is a revitalized Retrospect setting the agenda for
data protection software.

Don't take any comments about offices changing for more than they are.
The team is moving to existing facilities in Pleasanton and have kept a
great attitude through disruption and change.

I'm not Steve, for better or worse, but I still believe like him in not
talking about future releases, but I will say that new versions are
coming.

Again, thank you for your support of Retrospect.

Regards,

Larry Zulch

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Larry Zulch  |  EMC Insignia  |  (925) 948-9048