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NetApp Losing ‘Spew Dot Oh’ Blog War to Sun

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 29, 2007

“The ‘Participation Age’ has revealed a brand new aspect to
patent lawsuits–Executive Spew Dot Oh.

“Far more interesting than any of the IP claims traded between
Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems is the battle being waged
between NetApp founder Dave Hitz and Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan
Schwartz. The two executives have decided to make a spectacle of
their gripes, trading barbs via their blogs. Lawyers for both sides
must feel revulsion, resentment and fear every time one of these
loquacious nerds fires up his browser…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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