Yes I agree - every aspect of SnapServers has improved for us.
Price, Inclusions, Support have all improved & Development has continued probably all due to the fact that Overland is a little more forward thinking and the Core of the Snap Team transferred across at the time of sale and must have been given the opportunity to keep going forward.
Since the start of this post in DEC 07 where the question was asked was the sale to Overland Storage a good thing or a bad thing?
I think we can well and truly say now that it has been;
Fan-FN-tastic!
From a 1st customer (original purchaser's) point of view it is awesome.
From a Current Customers (owners) point of view it is awesome.
From the home users (most of the people on this site) point of view it is awesome.
1st customers & Current owners; why?- Pricing has halved or more than halved, easily.
- Pricing of services has halved or more than halved, easily.
- Warranty has gone from 3 to 2 years but upgradeable to 5 full years if required either at time of purchase or per year.
- All new units include two full years of software maintenance including access to updates
- The cost of software maintenance including access to updates is now a fraction of what it used to be, A snaop410's has gone from several hundred dollars to $110ex.
Home users; why?- If you want access to software maintenance for any GOS snap it is now much more affordable and as an example Snap4500 12 months is $150 approx a snap210 is $65 and a snap410 $110
- In the future there will be many more second hand SnapServers around for home user once they finish their tenure for the businesses that purchased them
But how did Adaptec get is so wrong?
- the guy at the top at Adaptec mucked it up... -who was he? lets call him Mr "A"
I wonder if he got a golden handshake?
Mr A paid $100,000,000 for Snap, to another guy Lets call him Mr X who only paid only $10,000,000 to get it from Snap Appliance...
From there it was penny pinching, over-charging & ripping everyone off blind to try to get back the $90,000,000, they didn't go close...
Then they sold it for $3,600,000 to Overland where Mr X, who sold it to them in the first instance, is on the board.
- Mr X, he made 90M for himself then Saves 96M for Overland! what a sales person!
I used to sell hundreds of Snap4100's, people loved them, I hope the new changes can see those days return...
The latest products that have been so much better have been hobbled by Mr A's mistake, he though he didn't have to to the checks on such a massive company purchase then he could put the Adaptec Logo on anything and charge anything!
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com....d?topic_id=614
Mr X must be one charming dude...
Max8