On 10/28/09 10:18 AM, Tim Cook wrote:
If Nexenta was too expensive, there's nothing Sun will ever offer that will fit your price profile. "Home electronics" is not their business model and never will be.
True, but this was discussed that on a different thread some time ago. Sun's prices on X86s are actually quite competitive if you can even find a comparable machine (i.e, with ECC on buses and memory). Given the Google report on memory failures that Richard Elling dug up a while ago, surely no one in their right mind would want to run anything the least bit important on a machine without such ECC, and I doubt you could configure a decent file server /new/ for less than $2K. If you can, I'm sure we'd all like to hear about it! However, you are certainly correct that Sun's business model isn't aimed at retail, although one wonders about the size of the market for robust SOHO/Home file/media servers that no one seems to be addressing right now (well, Apple, maybe, although they are not explicit about it and they don't offer ZFS...). Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
