Decru Vs NeoScale (Grudge Match)

I'm not going to favor one product over the other in this post, though I would like to direct your attention the CERT metric attached to the advisory Decru are attempting to make hay with:

That's zero-point-six-four out of a severity maximum of 180. 0 being the least severe while 180 is doomsday. Since it's one of the first things I check when I read an advisory it was interesting to see that it's not included in the Decru's note to NeoScale customers and anyone else Decru think should know about it.

The fact that this is being used as a competitive talking point at all is bizarre, though I've seen Neoscale try and hype similar non-issues.

It is interesting to note that Decru appears to have taken a page directly out of the NetApp marketing play book by going straight to NeoScale customers with a "letter" and shaking the press tree looking for a few quick stories to fall out. NetApp have a habit of sending out error filled missives which are usually low on facts but high on slanted opinions and selective omissions when they think they can take a cheap shot at a competitor, Decru may have picked up a similar bad habit.

Such fuss over non-issues like these do make one wonder how much progress is really being made in the appliance based encryption market if minor bugs like this, resolved in the currently shipping firmware we're told, are all they have to throw at one another?