> > Although I am in full support of what sun is doing, to play devils > > advocate: supermicro is.
They're not the only ones, although the most-often discussed here. Dell will generally sell hardware and warranty and service add-ons in any combination, to anyone willing and capable of figuring out what to order, although that effort might well be more than the result is worth. Many of the others have issues in being further from the retail market, such as support divisions that are only set up to deal with large enterprise full-service customers. Nothing wrong with that if it suits them. Of the others listed, Sun is the one promoting change and the benefits of ZFS and open storage, and which has the opportunity to make sales to an interested community. They, too, are entitled to exclude themselves from sales they don't want, for whatever reason they or their new masters choose. On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: > This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because that would have brought considerable attention to the opportunity of marketing and offering zfs-suitable hardware to the consumer arena. Port-multiplier boxes already seem to be targetted most at the Apple crowd, even it's only in hope of scoring a better margin. Otherwise, bad analogies, whether about cars or fruit, don't help. -- Dan.
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