> Well, I'm not holding out much hope of Sun working > with these suppliers any time soon. I asked Vmetro > why they don't work with Sun considering how well ZFS > seems to fit with their products, and this was the > reply I got: > > "Micro Memory has a long history of working with Sun, > and I worked at Sun for almost 10 years developing > Solaris x86. We have tried to get various Sun > Product Managers responsible for these servers > (Thumper) to work with us on this and they have said > no. We have tried to get Sun's integration group to > work with us (where they would integrate upon > customer request, charging the customer for > integration and support), and they have also said no. > They don't feel there is an adequate business case > to justify it as all of the opportunities are so > small." > > This is an incredibly frustrating response for all > the Sun customers who could have really benefited > from these cards. Why develop the ability to move > the ZIL to nvram devices, benchmark the Thumper on > one of them, and then refuse to work with the > manufacturer to offer the card to customers?
May be post this to Jonathan's blog. When the stock is down so much, it's bad that some guy somewhere is not doing his/her job properly of providing something the customers want. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
