Network appliance is scared of ZFS
Network Appliance builds its products around the free and open source FreeBSD operating system. As such they should know a little more about how the Free software community works.
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems has announced on his blog that Sun will be counter sueing Network Appliance over their initial (troll like) litigation against Sun.
Jonathan goes on to mention the FreeBSD port of ZFS: The port is done to FreeBSD, the OS on which Net App’s filers are built. They could use it without owing us a dime, and they’d be protected from our portfolio. (The quid pro quo? They’d have to agree to offer reciprocal protection to Sun.)
You know it’s funny, I was anti-sun for a very long time — but it seems they have really come around on the whole open source thing — and my next server purchase will probably be a sun box.
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