{"id":543434,"date":"2010-04-26T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=115922"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:45:20","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-up-at-gear6-nothing-good-we-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543434","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Gear6,<\/a> a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of<\/a> Memcached-based appliances<\/a> for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for assignment for the benefit of creditors<\/a>. The 4-year-old company has a pretty heavyweight line-up of executives, including Tom Shea, formerly CEO of Roxio and Mirra, and Martin Patterson, formerly head of Sun’s N1 Grid System and co-founder of Terraspring, as its VP of engineering.<\/p>\n

According to industry sources, Gear6 filed to liquidate its assets on Friday; I’ve reached out to the company but am still waiting to hear back. Rival Schooner Infotech<\/a>, meanwhile, is wasting no time feasting off Gear6 — it’s offering to help<\/a> Gear6 customers looking to transition to its hardware.<\/p>\n

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Gear6, a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of Memcached-based appliances for the cloud, seems to have hit hard times, as it’s filed for assignment for the benefit of creditors. The 4-year-old company has a pretty heavyweight line-up of executives, including Tom Shea, formerly CEO of Roxio and Mirra, and Martin Patterson, formerly head of Sun’s N1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}