Hi, Given the fact that i worked in the Healthcare industry and alot of my former customers wished to be able to run the former Sun NAS 5310 software in other hardware, i can see a interesting possible business case. In my former job, my customers liked the software used in the Sun StorageTek NAS appliance, but very few of them liked the concept of appliance..they prefer to have the same software in a non-appliance configuration, even if that means that SUN only has 1 server to support such a solution.
Anyway i fully understand that the FISHworks is a combination of hw with software with some specific targets in mind, and for that i think FISHworks is the best of what the market has to offer these days... Bruno On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:58:19 +0000, Bryan Cantrill <b...@eng.sun.com> 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. > > Why would we do this? I'm all for zero-cost endeavors, but this isn't > zero-cost -- and I'm having a hard time seeing the business case here, > especially when we have so many paying customers for whom the business > case for our time and energy is crystal clear... > > - 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 -- 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
