Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

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Glassware fake news? Surely not! The company just released this press release:https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2017/09/05/glassware-2-0-availability-by-sphere-3d/

And it includes this gem:

Through patented Glassware 2.0 technology, organizations can tackle their enterprise applications that need modernizing; a market that Microsoft officials have said includes 16 million 'classic' Win32, .NET and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps in existence.

"We have come a long way over the last couple of years as far as the capabilities of Glassware and the flexibility to deploy this game changing technology", said Peter Bookman, global strategist, Sphere 3D. "The OVA, coupled with the support that the HVE team can provide, customers are ready to tackle just about any application in their ecosystem and deploy it on existing infrastructure".

Read that carefully. Glassware can now deliver, at the end of 2017, legacy Windows apps.

A remarkable achievement considering that in 2013 and throughout 2014 the company claimed it could deliver mainframe, all Windows apps, Apple iOS and OSX, Linux, AIX, Android and of course, Fortran.

PS The announcement says the new Glassware OVA can mount on VMware ESXi hypervisor. As a reminder, that is the same technology that the company claimed Glassware made irrelevant and unnecessary. And even better, ESXi is the same one that Sphere executives said Glassware would make redundant. Remember the Citrix killer?

It would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that people lost millions on this story.