Xerox Corp’s IT supplier Electronic Data Systems got rather hot under the collar when ComputerWire reported that the copier company would be using some CacheFlow Inc devices to boost the speed of its intranet and web services at the expense of Sun proxy servers (CI No 3,570). CacheFlow had told us that EDS was saving itself $400,000 in the process. EDS denied this was the case and said that the CacheFlow devices, which had been installed on a trial basis, weren’t performing up to expectations anyway. Sun and Xerox are close, and after what appeared to be a ‘flea in its ear’ from EDS, Xerox called too. Finally, Xerox manager of internet services, Christopher Noyes called to say: we discovered a strong business case for deploying CacheFlow appliances.
