I just curious to see how much effort would it take to put the software of FISH running within a Sun X4275... Anyway..lets wait and see.
Bruno On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:29:24 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > 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/ -- Bruno Sousa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
