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by natebc4 hours ago |
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upvoteby throw0101c4 hours ago|
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Oracle and NetApp 'mutually dismissed' in 2010:

* https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2010/09/09/oracle-and-n...

* https://www.computerworld.com/article/1585889/opinion-patent...

NetApp originally sued then-independent Sun in 2007, and Sun counter-sued.

Free/TrueNAS/iXsystems has been offering ZFS-based solutions for many years now, and I haven't heard NetApp going after them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXsystems

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upvoteby natebc4 hours ago|
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I remember all this too. The time period that I was in this scene was AFTER 2010 though so who knows. As mentioned in response to the sibling "credible sources" bro, I was just a lowly support engineer so i had to trust that the CEO wasn't lying to us about all this.

Maybe he was ... they do that sometimes.

I looked around a little. the C&D from Netapp was in ~July 2010 and the partnership and product with Oracle in the Fall (Around the cease fire) and we continued with that (via the Oracle Partnership) through 2011-2015 when the company ran out of cash and laid us all off.

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upvoteby bzmrgonz3 hours ago|
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Do we add this corp. body count to Oracle then? I'm pretty sure that Oracle partnership wasn't cheap.
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upvoteby natebc1 hours ago|
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Who knows. I'm sure it was pretty expensive. Was certainly more comfortable on that side of their legal desk though I'm sure.
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upvoteby smartbit4 hours ago|
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only threats, no court cases or journalist writing about ZFS indemnification? IOW please provide links to credible sources.
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upvoteby natebc4 hours ago|
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sorry, don't have a link to the CEO telling us that we were signing a partnership with oracle that included the indemnification.

I was just a lowly support engineer so not privy to all the legal details that the executives were dealing with. I too had to just take them at their word.

ETA: I searched a bit. Here's a link

https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/networking/netapp-thr...

Maybe threats were enough? I certainly wouldn't want to test it myself.

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