I (heart) NetApps ;)
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jennifer Davis Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:02 PM To: Maxwell Reid Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: The End of All Filers?
Actually if you read both Sun's and Netapp's blogs you will see that there is a big discrepency on how items are being presented. Dave Hitz is trying not to incorporate a lot of the hot topic words, while Jonathan Schwartz seems to be trying to encourage a bandwagon approach.
Technology stands aside, regardless of what you think of NetApp or Sun.
First the sequence of events.. Sun tried to sue NetApp, NetApp returned that by suing Sun about ZFS. Sun replied with counterclaims.
Jonathan claims Network Appliance sued Sun to try to stop the competitive impact of ZFS on their business. That's not true.
He also goes in to claim that they're upset, and associating NetApp with
other corporations that just sue.
"Magical file system" ..
He claims that Sun has no interest in litigation..
In the Third paragraph, he claims "we file patents defensively". Well that is what NetApp did previously, and how they responded to Sun's original threat of litigation. So now it's ok for Sun to claim this after lambasting NetApp for doing this?
I think this whole thing is shady and puts my opinion of Sun and it's practices in a whole different light.
It's as if Jonathan Schwarz thinks we are all dumb, and can't process what we read. Sure, evaluate the claims on both sides. Nothing is ever absolute (other than that statement :). The sad thing is that there are
some fanatics that will take Schwarz's blog as gospel.
I think the most annoying thing is that Jonathan Schwartz continues to mispell Network Appliance or NetApp.