Scene from Competitor's Conference Room; (you'll have to forgive my accent) ...
Yes, Solarflare is the competitor with that amazing OpenOnload product - they're just whipping us out in the street. We need to come up with something. Our stuff is so bad, it wont even run NetPerf
I know, lets make a bogus release, announce it to the world and then string along everyone for 12months while re-write the entire codebase.
Oh, but we did that already two times.
Oh, and we have a serious silicon issue (again!).
I know, lets make a bogus release, announce it to the world and then string along everyone for 12months while re-write the entire codebase.
Brilliant @"! Yes, and we can force everyone to upgrade their adapters again to use the new software. We've churned almost our entire field team, so they can be easily brainwashed with the message.
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(Ed. Maybe they're trying to align up to Microsoft major release numbering !?)