Hmmmm.....

Whilst the logic in the article is reasonable, I'm not so sure that Brocade is up for sale. Firstly, any of the big three vendors acting as suitor would risk losing current OEM business to the other two biggies as they might turn to "independent" CISCO instead, which means the winner's expensive purchase could overnight become another StorageTek. The other issue is Brocade's domination of the market could lead to a spurned suitor using competition law to hold up the purchase in both the US and EU courts.