back to article Storage startup detaches field sales force from its nexus

We heard that storage startup OSNEXUS had laid off its outside sales staff and pre-sales engineering staff on Tuesday. We first met OSNEXUS last year, in February, and wrote: “OSNEXUS is a six-year-old startup making software-defined storage in the shape of QuantaStor, which is based on a grid of up to 32 nodes virtualised …

  1. Androgynous Cow Herd

    selling FOSS

    always a risky business model.

    a "Six year old startup"...LOL.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: selling FOSS

      Yeah, 26% growth is not impressive when you are a small company. 26% of a small number is a small number. When someone with an actual salesforce or field engineering team gets into the space, these guys will be done.

  2. Diginerd

    Pretty decent product...

    ...great support too.

    Bad news is it gets "speedy" past the lower tiers.

    Worth a look though, nice management/performance for smb / home lab.

    Hope they survive.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What?!?

    They are going to rely on the partners to run with leads? This is a recipe for disaster. What are they thinking?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wowa - Cart before the horse

    did they really say that? a seven year old storage company not ready for a sales organization?! Their recipe is "build, then market then sell"? Are they saying they arent done building it yet? The code name for it should be "Rome" as in wasnt built in a day or in this case a decade.

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