On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@nexenta.com> wrote: > 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.
It does. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
