Blog: William McKnight: Is Greenplum caught in Network Appliance Lawsuit of Sun Microsystems?

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Is Greenplum caught in Network Appliance Lawsuit of Sun Microsystems?

Greenplum's current main strategy is its bundling with Thumper, a product line from Sun Microsystems.

Network Appliance has sued Sun Microsystems for intellectual property infringement, specifically related to ZFS, the zettabyte file system that Thumper utilizes.

Dave Hitz, Founder and Executive Vice President of Network Appliance, explains their position here and Johnathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems replies in his blog here.

In triangulating this, it could be a problem for Greenplum.

Technorati tags: greenplum, network-appliance, thumper, sun-microsystems

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