On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:41:58AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Richard, when I talk about cheap JBOD I think about home users/small > >servers/small companies. I guess you can sell 100 X4500 and at the same > >time 1000 (or even more) cheap JBODs to the small companies which for sure > >will not buy the big boxes. Yes, I know, you earn more selling > >X4500. But what do you think, how Linux found its way to data centers > >and become important player in OS space ? Through home users/enthusiasts > >who > >become familiar with it and then started using the familiar things in > >their job. > > But Linux isn't a hardware vendor and doesn't make cheap JBOD or > multipack for the home user.
Linux is used as a symbol. > So I don't see how we get from "Sun should make cheap home user JBOD" > (which BTW we don't really have the channel to sell for anyway) to "but > Linux dominated this way". "Home user" = tech/geek/enthusiasts who is an admin in job [ Linux ] "Home user" is using linux at home and is satisfied with it. He/she then goes to job and says "Let's install/use it on less important servers". He/she (and management) is again satisfied with it. So lets use it at more important servers ... etc. [ ZFS ] "Home user" is using ZFS (Solaris) at home (remember easiness and even WEB interface to ZFS operations !,) to keep photos, musics, etc. and is satisfied with it. He/she the goes to his/her job and says "I use for a while a fantastic filesystem". Lets use it on less important servers". Ok. Later on "Works ok. Let's use on more important ....". Etc... Yes, I know, a bit naive. But remember that not only Linux spreads this way but also Solaris as well. I guess most of downloaded Solaris CD/DVD are for x86. You as a company "attack" at high end/midrange level. Let users/admins/fans "attack" at lower end level. przemol _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
