auspex

He left to go to Auspex but since Auspex licensed Sun's source he kept coming back.

For example, the folks who started Auspex came from Sun, I think (and in turn, Auspex missed the boat that took Network Appliances away).

A few of the people from Cambridge Analytica (or rather SCL elections) started a new political consultancy under the name Auspex International.

Reminds me of the old Auspex file servers, with their functional processing units.

In the 90s Auspex sold fileservers that had lots of specialty offload processors.

Cambridge Analytica -> Auspex Blackwater -> Xe Services Operating in Africa, no less.

Fortunately, I had started taking user mailbox backups to our Auspex NFS file server that week, so we had backups.

Then the advantage of functional processors disappeared, and Auspex with it.

And snapshots on Netapp were better than anything Auspex had.

Did anybody use Auspex NFS servers in the late 1990's?

Edit: BTW Auspex had very nice hardware.

One noteworthy benchmark pitted NetWare 3.x running NFS services over TCP/IP (not NetWare's native IPX protocol) against a dedicated Auspex NFS server and an SCO Unix server running NFS service.

Auspicious comes from Latin "auspex" (bird seer) so the root is avis, bird.

Though, if you want an example of "recreate the software" (though not with IP infringements), look at Dave Hitz and James Lau from Netapp and that they formerly worked at Auspex.

"auspex" in the modern spelling, the source of English "auspices"), from "avi-" = bird and "specere", the non-frequentative form of "spectare".

Auspex did this in the late '80s, they were about the first to sell NAS.

Auspex vs Network Appliance, (early) Ford vs all the luxury car makers, and so on.

In the 1990's all of our file servers were from Auspex.