NetApp purchased HvNAS ...

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jan 6 09:26:33 MST 2015


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 06:01:13PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Some of you might have known about HvNAS ... a company selling its own
> SMB2/3 stack for Linux.
> 
> It was recently purchased by NetApp.
> 
> I guess the moral is: If something look likewise to be too good to be
> true, it probably is.
> 
> That's two for two now.

Well companies just *love* to say "our stuff is unique, it's
not that common Open Source stuff everyone else uses".

Doesn't matter if it's better or not when a marketing
bullet-point is the goal :-).


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