Other companies dropped out as well, but Truskowski says EMC feared the tests would point out too many weaknesses. "My frustration is that it seems like if the open industry standards stuff we're doing isn't going the way EMC would like, they announce their own separate initiative, and declare that open," he said.
All of these tensions are coming into play as EMC tries to sign up more software partners.
Carolyn DiCenzo, chief analyst at Gartner, said the new moves represent a different kind of competition for EMC. "EMC is trying to understand what they have to be, in order to be a player in the wider space" of data storage software, she said.
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