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Thursday, January 22. 2009

Bryan points out to an interesting fact. The business plan of NetApp at it´s start was clearly targeted agains Sun. Even more interesting: The competitors of the ending 00 decade - Sun is only one of them, there are others like Greenbyte or Nexenta Systems - use Netapps own business ideas against NetApps. Just with swapped names. I´m sure it will work again, as the market mechanics are pretty much the same, too. When you make the same mistakes, this is just a logical development and you should not be that astonished when you look at the same barrel you´ve pointed to others.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 11:57 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thank you but I guess I missed the point. We do not see ourselves as a competitor to NetApp and are using very different methods (ideas) to enter the market. Sun is of course trying to take on NetApp head on with a more similar model.

#1 Evan Powell (Homepage) on 2009-01-23 17:03 (Reply)

NetApp used a a different approach to NFS appliances when Sun still thought it was a good idea just to bundle a server with storage without making an appliance from it.

Albeit Sun, NetAPP and Nexenta have pretty different business models, they work in the same business. And the story remembers the one between Sun and NTAP.

But now it´s custom build vs. general purpose, albeit with different approaches. In my humble opinion, you may not compete with NTAP, but you are part of a new perspective into the storage market, and this perspective is quite different to the one of NTAP.

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-01-23 17:13 (Reply)

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