Sun countersues NetApp over storage patents
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Sun filed suit in U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas against the entire NetApp product line, seeking both an injunction and monetary damages.
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EASTMAN Kodak is expecting a payout of more than $US1 billion this week after winning a patent lawsuit against Sun Microsystems. A jury found Sun&#39;s popular Java software infringed several patents Eastman Kodak bought from Wang Laboratories in late 1997.
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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Sun Microsystems Inc has found itself in the unusual position of losing a Java law suit, brought by photography giant Eastman Kodak.
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Settling in with Azul Sun Microsystems and start-up Azul Systems have settled their patent spat. Neither company will say squat about the settlement, leaving you wondering who came out the victor in this exercise.â¦
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Sun Microsystems fires back against NetApp's patent infringement lawsuit involving the ZFS file system software.
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Sun on Thursday announced that it settled the lawsuit Eastman Kodak had brought against it, but the charge that Sunâs Java violated software patents held by Kodak brought to light the major impact patents can have on software techniques.
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Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management software.Onaro&#39;s main product family is&#160;SANScreen. The suite&#39;s components include an engine that models the relationships between components in a distributed system; a repository that monitors the storage services that applications need; and a change repository for tracking device and service changes, according to a company white paper. The point is to help administrators improve performance and resolve problems within their storage area networks.Onaro&#39;s technology is deployed in 32 percent of the Fortune 50 companies, according to a statement. NetApp said Onaro&#39;s products are complementary to its existing offerings, which include its V-Series virtualization systems; ReplicatorX data recovery and replication software; and its Decru DataFort storage encryption appliances.NetApp said the deal will close in the first quarter of this year. Financial terms were not disclosed. Shares of NetApp stock were trading at roughly $25 Thursday morning, a rise of approximately $0.25.
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ZFS file system can't be un-open-sourced, Schwartz says on his blog. And if Sun wins, it'll donate some proceeds to open-source and patent reform causes.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a software patent lawsuit brought against it by Eastman Kodak Co., Sun announced Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by U.S. patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday. Meanwhile, it's celebrating a jury decision clearing it of patent infringement charges related to a feature in its Office software.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. says a Sunnyvale, California, company has infringed its patents by creating computers that allow customers to run IBM's System z operating systems and software on mainframes from other vendors. That action amounts to breach of contract and patent infringement, IBM claimed Nov. 29 in a lawsuit filed against Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Founded in 1999, PSI is now testing its product with beta customers, and preparing to launch it in 2007. PSI's emulator system enables a server using Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 processors to simultaneously run operating systems including IBM's z/OS, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM's current generation of System z products include zSeries servers and System z9 servers, both running on IBM's 64-bit z/Architecture and z/OS operating system, and both using software such as IBM's Database 2 (DB2) and Customer Information Control System (CICS). From PSI's point of view, its "patented microcode technology" enables standard, open-system Itanium processors to run the IBM z/OS operating system. But IBM describes those same machines as servers that mimic IBM computer architectures so they can run IBM software. IBM claims that practice violates its software licenses, and has asked a judge to assign damages and terminate PSI's licenses. "PSI's marketing program is a blatant attempt to infringe on IBM's intellectual property and to convert to PSI the fruits of IBM's substantial investments in developing computer systems, architectures, operating systems and other software," the lawsuit said. In turn, PSI has threatened to sue IBM for violating antitrust laws by refusing to extend the software license, the lawsuit said. So IBM also asked the judge to deny that claim. The two companies were once on better terms. In August, PSI demonstrated its emulator system at a meeting of SHARE, the IBM user group. A spokesman for SHARE said the group had a practice of declining comment on IBM management and legal issues. One possible defense by PSI will be to argue that Ronald Hilton, the company's founder and chief technology officer, actually holds a patent for the emulator system. PSI did not respond to a request for comment. A statement on PSI's Web site says, "PSI is very disappointed that IBM has resorted to litigation. While we recognize that we are a competitor of IBM, PSI has always sought and continues to seek a normal commercial relationship. ... PSI is confident in its legal position." A spokesman for IBM declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Kodak, one of the largest digital imaging companies, filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems stating that Sun has infringed on Kodak&#39;s various patents, however, the case centered around three main ones.
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(NetApp)  This report reviews what an organization should consider when calculating the total cost of ownership for managing storage in VMware server virtualization environments.  It presents findings from independent research conducted by Oliver Wyman, formerly Mercer Management Consulting, in determining the total cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing storage environments from EMC, HP and NetApp to support VMware server virtualization solutions, and how the total cost of a NetApp SAN storage solution for VMware is over 37% lower than comparable offerings from EMC or HP.
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Microsoft is fighting a rejection by US patent authorities of a patent for its FAT filesystem, the company said on Thursday. Meanwhile, it&#39;s celebrating a jury decision clearing it of patent infringement charges
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How significant is the US Patent and Trademark Office&#39;s initial rejection of Microsoft&#39;s FAT (file allocation table) file system patent claims?