{"id":508,"date":"2007-10-23T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2007-10-23T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:46:00","slug":"is-microsoft-a-netapp-competitor-or-strategic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/is-microsoft-a-netapp-competitor-or-strategic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft a NetApp Competitor or Strategic Partner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.navweaps.com\/Weapons\/WNUS_16-50_mk7_Iowa_pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navweaps.com\/Weapons\/WNUS_16-50_mk7_Iowa_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/content\/business\/stories\/other\/10\/23\/1023microsoft.html\">article<\/a>  about the recent EU decision   Microsoft and NetApp are competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pact negotiated by the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, and Steven Ballmer, Microsoft&#8217;s chief executive, will enable Microsoft&#8217;s competitors \u2014 from global enterprises such as IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Network Appliance Inc. to small, independent software developers \u2014 to make and sell server software that works seamlessly with Microsoft&#8217;s, which industry experts predicted would open vast new sales opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php\/id;1118764503\">article<\/a> NetApp and Microsoft  are partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetApp is proud to increase its commitment to Microsoft and the MTCs. Our increased investment in the MTC program demonstrates our current success and desire to serve customers using the Windows Server platform,\u201d said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This could be a case of keeping your &#8220;friends close and your enemies closer&#8221;, or it could be the beginning salvo in a opening battle between the two companies. Either way, as a customer or competitor you have to wonder who is leading the PR  campaigns in these companies because customers are receiving two very  different versions of how these companies view each other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-8607907855963264831?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article about the recent EU decision Microsoft and NetApp are competitors. &#8220;The pact negotiated by the European competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, and Steven Ballmer, Microsoft&#8217;s chief executive, will enable Microsoft&#8217;s competitors \u2014 from global enterprises such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/23\/is-microsoft-a-netapp-competitor-or-strategic-partner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}