On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Bruno Sousa wrote:
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. Why an increase in revenues? Well, i assume that alot of customers would buy the Fishworks to put into they XYZ high-end server.
"Fishworks" products (products that the Fishworks team developed) are designed, tweaked, and tuned for particular hardware configurations. It is not like general purpose OpenSolaris where the end user gets to experiment with hardware configurations and tunings to get the best performance (but might not achieve it).
Fishworks engineers are even known to "holler" at the drives as part of the rigorous product testing.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
