NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 5, 2007 @01:07PM from the don't-take-the-law-into-your-own-hands dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld reports, "Network Appliance Inc. today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sun Microsystems Inc. seeking unspecified compensatory damages and an injunction that would prohibit Sun from developing or distributing products based on its ZFS file system technology. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Lufkin, Texas, charges that the Sun ZFS technology infringes on seven NetApp patents pertaining to data processing systems and related software.""

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Re:Original PDF and NetApp's explanation by rossifer · 2007-09-05 16:12 · Score: 1, Redundant

Here's another vote for NetApp. They're expensive, but they just work. Their support is excellent as well. We had multiple incidents over four years and they were simply on top of the situation, helping us resolve problems that almost always turned out to be because of things we'd done to the system.