Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler
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And on top of all of that, it is subject to the Jurassic Park Effect, as well.
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@scottalanmiller Just found this old thread from 2012 that is pretty great, as well:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/281007-challenging-openfiler
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@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
Originally from August, 2013. The current release version is still 2.99. So four years they've not even updated the website except for the copyright at the bottom.
Following up a few more years later. No further release has ever come. 2.99 remains the only available download. The only change is that in December, 2018, they posted on the download site that the download isn't patched for a major vulnerability because their upstream OS was abandoned in 2014. So at least they've recognized it as an abandoned project at this point.
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You know, it is weird, every few years I check back because I have this weird fear in the back of my mind that maybe I was wrong in ~2011 when I researched OpenFiler so much and called them directly even to try to find out what was going on, looking into their broken network stack, data loss with clients, lack of updates, proposed fixes, made an open challenge for good community interaction. Calling out a vendor always worries me. But it is funny, it's been six years now since we posted why it was dead and eight years at least since calling them out for bad design to force users to pay for support to stop losing data (data extortion, as it is known.) In that time, no fixes, no patches, no replacement product, no apologies. We got threats and nothing else. No idea why I still worry that nearly a decade later maybe they'll make a viable product and "prove something", lol.
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my god openfiler is still around? I remember playing with it and wanting to use it but never ending up using in the end. One of the reason was it barely updated.
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@360col said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
my god openfiler is still around? I remember playing with it and wanting to use it but never ending up using in the end. One of the reason was it barely updated.
Not really, apparently died a LONG time ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
Original thread at Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler on SpiceWorks. The info is so important, it should be here, too. Originally from August, 2013. The current release version is still 2.99. So four years they've not even updated the website except for the copyright at the bottom.
Just a follow up as I had totally forgotten about this product until I saw it mentioned in another ancient threat.... if you visit their page now, ANOTHER four years after this thread was originally made, OF is STILL on version 2.99. So eight years now, almost nine, since an update after their swore up and down that they were alive and doing well and all kinds of new stuff was coming out. Their only update was in 2018 to note on the website that the product was legacy and the kernel wasn't stable.
Eight years, no patches.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
You know, it is weird, every few years I check back because I have this weird fear in the back of my mind that maybe I was wrong in ~2011 when I researched OpenFiler so much and called them directly
A full decade now. Man that seemed way more recent.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
I saw it mentioned in another ancient threat.
freudian slip?
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@danp said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
@scottalanmiller said in Why We Recommend Against OpenFiler:
I saw it mentioned in another ancient threat.
freudian slip?
LOL, indeed.
