NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss • The Register

NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss • The Register

That's right, last week solaris is Dead, and zfs and D-Trace were really relegated to nice to have's

Well, I think this win for SUN is huge

NetApp was unable to comment immediately on this story. Sun's win - if it is a win - and the PTO decisions potentially turn NetApp's WAFL IP into, well, IP waffle. Sun gets a welcome PR boost to its ZFS and open source credentials, leaving NetApp with a bloody nose and a 22-patent IT infringement case to deal with. Oh, and the economy is going down the tubes too. It isn't so sunny in Sunnyvale right now.

Gotta Love it.

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USB using NTFS...Problems mounting, I think NOT

Had a customer, Thanks Kevin, wanting to mount NTFS USB drive on Solaris.

He downloaded these to packages from here

FSWfsmisc FSWpart

and look at that NTFS on Solaris.

FAA using Solaris?

How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century

Wow, since Solaris is dead, I'd be afraid to fly.  NOT...This is a great feather in the Solaris hat.

Sun's
open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage
infrastructure—which features built-in, state-of-the-art virtualization
capability—was a key building block on which the FAA IT evaluation
group settled. Some of the new software is already being used in the
air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File System) is
being used in the FAA's air traffic data center.



"The FAA uses a large quantity of Sun Solaris servers in a variety of configurations to support some of our noncritical business applications,"
Andy Isaksen, manager of the Communications Infrastructure Engineering
Team for NADIN and architect of the original mainframe system, said.
"ZFS is being used on at least one service within the Air Traffic
Organization Enterprise Data Center."