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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by hapless on Sunday December 09, 2012 @04:06PM (#4896129)
Dell bought an existing company.

Cisco bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant.

Citrix bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant.

F5 went to Linux many years ago

Juniper is still FreeBSD. They win this one ;)

NetApp has a port to Linux, but is still shipping FreeBSD. 50/50.

Nokia/CheckPoint went to Linux (SecurePlatform)

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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by profquail on Sunday December 09, 2012 @05:17PM (#4896392)
Juniper Networks is actively hiring software engineers with FreeBSD experience:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/2012-Novembe...

And they're not the only ones...

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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by irq on Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:38PM (#4896842)
> NetApp has a port to Linux, but is still shipping FreeBSD. 50/50.

This is the first I've heard of this. Source?

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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by ChuckMcM on Monday December 10, 2012 @12:57AM (#4897752)
I too would be interested, I was at NetApp when they acquired Spinnaker which was using Linux and that product was ported over to FreeBSD. That said NetApp has been a huge supporter of getting solid NFS support in Linux both through the pNFS effort and the work that was done at Citi/UMich.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by hapless on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:38AM (#4899851)
http://partners.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/sample/0206tot_...
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by irq on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:11PM (#4901247)
That post is 6 years old and ONTAP has been through at least 3 major releases since then.

Additionally, the post states that the purpose of ONTAP on Linux was to simulate ONTAP for testing & education purposes. In 2006 this was probably the easiest way, but those needs have been met for years by the VMware images NetApp provides.

So, this almost certainly does not exist anymore.

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