On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Bryan Cantrill 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.

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...

(Just playing Devil's Advocate here)

There could be no economics at all. A basic warranty would be provided but running a standalone product is a wholly on your own proposition once one ventures outside a very small hardware support matrix.

Perhaps Fishworks/AK would have a OpenSolaris edition - leave the bulk of the actual hardware support up to a support infrastructure that's already geared towards making wide ranges of hardware supportable - OpenSolaris/Solaris, after all, does allow that.

Perhaps this could be a version of Fishworks that's not as integrated with what you get on a SUS platform; if some of the Fishworks functionality that depends on a precise hardware combo could be reduced or generalized, perhaps it's worth consideration. Knowing the little I do about what's going on under the hood of a SUS system, I wouldn't expect the version of Fishworks uses on the SUS systems to have 100% parity with a unbundled Fishworks edition - but the core features, by and large, would convey.

/dale
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