Clever, clever Adaptec

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Anonymous Coward

Errr - "Clever" ?? #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 11:10 GMT

Where do you get the idea that Adaptec is clever ?

You report it made a loss for fiscal 2008 - the company has made huge losses for the last 4 - 5 years and their current revenues are about 1/10th of what they were.

As for the purchase of of Aristos, have you realised that this is at least the 5th RAID company Adaptec have bought ? What happened to the people and skills of all the others ? Adaptec's workforce shrinkage (about 75% total, in Europe about 97%) means that as a supposed RAID company Adaptec no longer had internal R&D (let alone maintenance) skills.

This looks like a purchase forced on Adaptec by Steel Partners who last year thought they were investing in a RAID company - then found out they'd been scammed.

Little tweaks of technology like this are all that's left to Adaptec. They've completely lost the RAID on motherboard business, they have zero OEM business and their once impeccable reputation in the industry is now lower than Gordon Brown's popularity.

Christopher P. Martin

So green is a verb now... #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 11:10 GMT

...has the CEO been 'greened' in that pic? Or is he waiting to be green-screened into somewhere that would give him a good reason for that slightly disturbing maniacal smile?

KarlTh

@Christopher P. Martin #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 11:24 GMT

Verbing weirds language. (Bill Waterson)

David Shepherd

@KarlTh #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

Stop it immediately - don't verb nouns

Anonymous Coward

Don't Buy Adaptec #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

The OpenBSD project now recommends not using Adaptec controllers. The reason is that Adaptec have flatly refused to release information so that a properly working RAID driver can be written. The current driver is buggy and can't do things like interrogating the health of the array, and Adaptec refuse to release information that would allow this to be done.

What's the point of making hardware if you won't let the software guys work with it?

Ref: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#38

Chris Mellor

Green as a (weird) verb #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

Chambers doesn't list 'green' as a verb but HyperDic does:- http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/green.htm#v3000. Mr Sundaresh's image was Photoshopped into having a green background. The smile is original.

Chris.

Chris Mellor

Adaptec and Gordon Brown #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

Adaptec's past reputation is dire, you are very right there. I have a feeling in m'vitals that a tide may be turning though. 1 + 1 may make 3 in this case. Could be wrong of course. We'll see.

Chris.

Mark Lockwood

@KarlTh #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

Surly verbing evolves language.

We do have to be careful though, else we'll be stuck with such abominations as lappy and mobe.

I feel a vote coming on....

Thom Brown

No series 3? #

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:01 GMT

I noticed that they're only supporting this on lowest and highest end cards. Why not the 3 series mid-range? They don't even mention it nor explain what it is about the 2 and 5 series that makes them capable of supporting it over the 3 series.

Daniel