[OpenAFS] NetApp acquires Spinnaker Networks

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:05:34 -0500 Mitch Collinsworth 
<mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Toens Bueker wrote:
>
>> FYI - http://www.netapp.com/news/press/2003/news_rel_20031104.html
>>
>> How will NetApp integrate (Spinnakers) AFS into their
>> products - or will they at all?
>
> Spinnaker's product is not AFS, though it does have a few similarities.

Architecturally, it has a _lot_ of similarities.  Some of the key designers 
were some of the same people who designed AFS, and it shows.  However, 
you're right; it neither shares code with any AFS implementation nor speaks 
the same protocols.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA