On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:05 +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> Linder, Doug wrote:
> > Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering -
> > how does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it? Do you
> > think it's such an important feature that it's a big factor in customers
> > picking Solaris over other platforms?
> >
>
> Yes, it is one of many significant factors in customers choosing Solaris
> over other OS's.
> Having chosen Solaris, customers then tend to buy Sun/Oracle systems to
> run it on.
>
> Of course, there are the 7000 series products too, which are heavily
> based on the capabilities of ZFS, amongst other Solaris features.
>
And, the next release of Solaris (whenever it comes out) is supposed to
make far more use of zfs for things like its packaging system (upgrades
using snapshots, etc.) and zones. Indeed, its possible (I've not
checked in a long time) that S10 makes of snapshots for live upgrade if
root is zfs.
ZFS is a key strategic component of Solaris going forward. Having to
abandon it would be a heavy blow -- quite possibly (IMO) fatal -- at
least to its future with Oracle.
- Garrett
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