On 8/17/10 3:17 PM -0500 Tim Cook wrote:
If Oracle really wants to keep it out of Linux, that means it wants
to keep it out of FreeBSD also. Either way, to keep it out it needs
to make it closed source, and as they say, the genie is already out
of the bottle.
I don't agree that there's a licensing problem, but that doesn't matter.
Distributions, which is how nearly EVERYONE uses Linux, are free to
include zfs on their own. All the major distributions already patch
the kernel heavily.
FreeBSD has nowhere near the installed base of Linux. There is also
absolutely 0 "Enterprise" support for FreeBSD. ZFS will not change that.
It is not a threat to Oracle.
What I don't understand is why Linux is a threat to Oracle then.
Oracle runs on both Linux and Solaris. The market for ZFS-backed
disk arrays is small, and again, that genie is already out of the
bottle anyway.
Have you dealt with RedHat "Enterprise" support? lol.
The "enterprise" is going to continue to want Oracle on Solaris.
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