http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/netapp-vs-sun-debate-rages-on-the-web/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/netapp-vs-sun-debate-rages-on-the-web/#comment-6786 Sun and NetApp take their fight to California — Storage Soup Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:36:28 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/10/netapp-vs-sun-debate-rages-on-the-web/#comment-6786 [...] Here’s where blogs come in to play again, as they have, frequently and at times weirdly, throughout this case. According to a letter Sun sent to members of the press today: Reexams have been filed on the NetApp WAFL patents that purportedly cover concepts such as copy on write, snapshot and writable snapshot. There is a significant amount of prior art describing this technology that was not in front of the US patent office when it first examined these patents. In just one example, the early innovation by Mendel Rosenblum and John Ousterhout on Log Structured File Systems, applauded in a NetApp blog: http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/vmwares-founder.html as beinginspirational to the founders, was not considered by the patent office in the examination of the NetApp patents. [...] [...] Here’s where blogs come in to play again, as they have, frequently and at times weirdly, throughout this case. According to a letter Sun sent to members of the press today: Reexams have been filed on the NetApp WAFL patents that purportedly cover concepts such as copy on write, snapshot and writable snapshot. There is a significant amount of prior art describing this technology that was not in front of the US patent office when it first examined these patents. In just one example, the early innovation by Mendel Rosenblum and John Ousterhout on Log Structured File Systems, applauded in a NetApp blog: <a href="http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/vmwares-founder.html" title="http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/vmwares-founder.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/vmw…</a> as beinginspirational to the founders, was not considered by the patent office in the examination of the NetApp patents. [...]

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/netapp-vs-sun-debate-rages-on-the-web/#comment-6785 Sun has more ZFS visions — Storage Soup Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:33:42 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/10/netapp-vs-sun-debate-rages-on-the-web/#comment-6785 [...] But there’s an elephant in the room. “What happens,” asked this reporter of Sun’s officials in Burlington, “if NetApp wins its lawsuit?” (For those of you unaware, NetApp has filed a cease-and-desist lawsuit against Sun claiming ZFS violates NetApp’s NAS patents. The two may eventually drop their posturing and come to some sort of cross-licensing agreement, but as things stand right now, a NetApp win means not a licensing deal but a mandate to stop distributing ZFS altogether, period.) [...] [...] But there’s an elephant in the room. “What happens,” asked this reporter of Sun’s officials in Burlington, “if NetApp wins its lawsuit?” (For those of you unaware, NetApp has filed a cease-and-desist lawsuit against Sun claiming ZFS violates NetApp’s NAS patents. The two may eventually drop their posturing and come to some sort of cross-licensing agreement, but as things stand right now, a NetApp win means not a licensing deal but a mandate to stop distributing ZFS altogether, period.) [...]

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