Dedupe this: NetApp buying Data Domain

Announcing its intent to be king of the dedupe hill, NetApp is buying Data Domain for $1.5bn. The announcement overshadowed NetApp's fiscal 2009 earnings which beat Wall Street estimates. The IT world has been agog with rumours of a big takeover, Cisco and EMC being often mentioned, but Data Domain and NetApp was an unexpected …

[Anonymous Coward]

Netapps bought a feature, not a product

for one point five billion bucks.

Cut off the head of the dope who made this decision, methinks...