Exhibit (a)(13)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact:
Robin Austin
Sr. Manager, Public Relations
(714) 513-8152
robin.austin@emulex.com
EMULEX CORPORATION AND VIXEL CORPORATION
ANNOUNCE EARLY TERMINATION OF HSR WAITING PERIOD
FOR EMULEX'S PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF VIXEL
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COSTA MESA, CALIF., NOVEMBER 3, 2003 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX)
and Vixel Corporation (NASDAQ:VIXL) today announced that the waiting period
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 related to the
tender offer Emulex commenced, through a wholly owned subsidiary, on October 15,
2003 to purchase the outstanding shares of Vixel at $10.00 net per share expired
at 11:59 p.m. New York City time on October 31, 2003. The termination of this
waiting period satisfies one of the conditions for Emulex's acquisition of
Vixel.
This news release is for informational purposes only. It does not
constitute an offer to purchase shares of Vixel Corporation under the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The tender offer referred
to herein is being made only through the Offer to Purchase dated October 15,
2003 and in the related Letter of Transmittal (as each of them may be amended or
supplemented from time to time) that Emulex Corporation and its wholly owned
subsidiary, Aviary Acquisition Corp., have filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission as exhibits to a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO.
Vixel Corporation has filed a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule
14D-9 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the tender
offer. These documents contain important information and security holders and
other interested parties should read these documents carefully before making any
decision with respect to the tender offer. These documents may be obtained free
of charge at the Security and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov or
from Emulex, either at its web site at www.emulex.com or by directing a request
to Emulex Corporation, 3535 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, California
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92626, Attention: Investor Relations. Persons with questions regarding the
tender offer should contact MacKenzie Partners, the information agent for the
tender offer, at (800) 322-2885 (toll free) or Merrill Lynch & Co., the dealer
manager for the tender offer, at (866) 276-1462 (toll free).
ABOUT EMULEX
Emulex Corporation is the world's largest supplier and developer of
storage networking host bus adapters. It was recently named one of Forbes
Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, and ranked number 15
in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC,
firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking
protocols, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and
reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by
the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu
Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance,
StorageTek and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade,
Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic
partners. Additionally, Emulex and Intel, via a joint development agreement, are
pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial
Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.
Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling
organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL,
Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo
Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News
releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at
www.emulex.com.
ABOUT VIXEL
Vixel Corporation is a leading provider and innovator of embedded
storage connectivity technologies for storage solution providers. Its
award-winning technology, InSpeed(TM), cost-effectively enables new levels of
reliability, scalability and performance in storage systems. Through innovation
and partnership with its customers, Vixel advances leading edge embedded storage
connectivity technologies that enable the architectural evolution of next
generation storage systems. Vixel's embedded storage switching and storage
networking products have been deployed by leading solution providers such as HP,
Fujitsu, Network Appliance, NEC, Sun Microsystems, Avid
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Technologies, Xyratex and BlueArc. To find out more about Vixel and its unique
technology offerings, visit www.vixel.com.
Vixel Corporation is headquartered at 11911 North Creek Parkway South,
Bothell, Washington 98011 and can be contacted by phone at 425-806-5509 or
e-mail at marketing@vixel.com.
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