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January 07, 2009

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The millenium counting example is cute, if a bit counterintuitive :).

Great intro Dave! And congratulations on the book.

If, as you say, both accounts of your youth are true, then I can't wait to find out in what circumstances you can honestly say you were a hitchhiking castrater of bulls...

A very welcome addition to the club. Enough read about the Intels and IBMs of the world. We have been wanting to know what "Netapps" is all about, all this time.... :)

Awesome Intro. I'll have to buy the book to see if our memories from NetApp align from the late 80s and early 90s. I just this week retired my 1998 "Gamera" release t-shirt. Too many holes to wear in public anymore. Sadly it will be putting a shine on my car soon enough. Just one more time you should print a ".com era" type T-shirt for all NetApp employees. I have the "Licensed to sell" kickoff long-sleeve which I still wear, and a few others. Thanks for the great memories.

Hey wait, I mean late 1990s and early 2000s. Man, I'm old.

Unfortunately I didn't join NetApp until one the chapters which is more palatable to English majors.

However, it's a great place to work. Thanks for that, Dave.

[Dave replies: You are welcome. I did it just for you!]

Sounds Great! Will you be replicating a copy to your favorite customers? :)

dan

Dave: Are you the No. 1 engineer of NetApp?

[Dave replies: James Lau and I were the first two engineers at NetApp, so perhaps that qualifies me as a “number one engineer”. On the other hand, neither James nor I have done any product development for a long time. Both of us now work on higher-level corporate strategy. So at this point, we aren’t engineers at all, number one or otherwise.]

Dave - looking forward to buying and reading the book!

Congrats on the book, the success - and as always - may we meet on the battlefield!

(from an EMCer)

Dave, great blog, nice to read a engineering perspective.

I loved the "don't listen to my mother" since I went to high school with her. I reconnected with her October 2006 at the 50th reunion in Stockton.

Hilarious! During the initial nanosecond I parsed "Chapter 0" as leading towards 'Chapter 11', so was expecting bad news for NetApp. Thankfully not.

The segway onto Testicle removal was too much and I cracked up laughing as I skimmed the article - a great opener for your book.

offtopic - ZFS patents

Id love to see a public announcement that Sun and NetApp have granted each other free use of the disputed patents. Who wins is less about technical innovation and more about lawyers fees, and I think fighting ZFS puts the community of open source developers off-side when they're an important source of NetApp recommendations. just a thought.


Hope the book does well, these success stories egg us code-tinkerers onto great things.

gord.

Congratulations on the bookWriting a book is a huge undertaking, and it’s impressive that you’ve managed to do it while working on all the other things that you do. I'm very much curious to know about story of "Netapp".

Looking forward to see your book soon!.


~Amit Shiknis.

Well, as a mother, I find your ending rather provocative…so I guess I’ll have to buy it to see where you take it.

I’m sure you must resolve it positively to stay out of your mom’s and wife’s collective doghouses!

Seriously, looks like a great read. I like the W.S. Burroughs-esque introduction. 

Chapter Zero brings back the memories of the DEC (bits 0-31) vs IBM (1-32) numbering styles/wars as well!

How about an audio edition for us commuters - maybe you could even be the narrator for your own book!

Hi Dave

I have a question with regards to NetApp, please.

What do you use for Multi-pathing, what is the NetApp application?

EMC uses Powerpath and HDS Hitachi uses HDLD, I'm very familiar with Multi-path applications and would love to know what is used for NetApp, perhaps Data ONTAP?

Thanks Jorg

Hi Dave,

I just handed out two copies to two friends of mine who started a new company (despite given climate).

Let's see where they're at 15 years from now... ;-)

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