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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