> I can agree that the software is the one that really has the added > value, but to my opinion allowing a stack like Fishworks to run outside > the Sun Unified Storage would lead to lower price per unit(Fishwork > license) but maybe increase revenue.
I'm afraid I don't see that argument at all; I think that the economics that you're advocating would be more than undermined by the necessarily higher costs of validating and supporting a broader range of hardware and firmware... - Bryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss