Oracle releases Solaris 10 U9 with ZFS v22 without dedup

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:54:48PM +0200, Martin Matuska wrote:
> Of course without sources.
> 
> And more news, Netapp and Oracle have agreed to dismiss lawsuits.
> 
> http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20100909-oracle-settlement.html
> 
> The question is, why is Solaris 10 U9 without deduplication? If this has
> something to do with the agreement, one possibility is that they agreed
> deduplication may only be in Oracle Storage Appliances and Oracle will
> honor their patent.
> 
> That would mean for us: no deduplication, or anybody using or selling it
> without paying a royalty to netapp can go to court
> 
> But that is just a speculation as there is no more information available.
> 
> Anyway, it is better to be cautious than to end like Coraid.

My understanding is very different. I was under impression that NetApp
cannot go after people using OpenSolaris until they win in court. Before
that every OpenSolaris code consumer is protected by CDDL. NetApp didn't
win, right?

Also:

"both parties have agreed to dismiss their pending patent litigation"

My English might not be enough here, but my reading is that because patent
litigation was dismissed, NetApp no longer claims (in legal sense) that
Oracle violates NetApp's patents via OpenSolaris. Is my reading correct
or not?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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