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We've kept a fairly low profile and have not commented much on the Oracle / NetApp lawsuit. Today, however, Coraid announced that they have received a letter from NetApp threatening them; Coraid has decided therefore to stop reselling their ZFS based storage appliance. As the leading vendor of ZFS based storage appliances and a long time supporter of AoE and a technical partner of Coraid, we're inevitably mentioned in discussions about this lawsuit. Rather than rehash the entire case I'll just make a few points that have been missing from the commentary I have seen today so far:... If you are one of the 78% percent of enterprises that support OpenSource (see my related blog on a recent Accenture survey), now is the time to stop buying solutions from legacy vendors that resort to lawsuits.

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