ZFS is a good thing – no argument

Open Standards are a good thing – agreed, and NetApp works very hard to follow many of them (and to help develop a few)

Cheaper and More Capable hardware is a good thing – yup.  Sun servers aren’t exactly ‘commodity’ though.

Lower Operating Costs are a good thing – agreed.  NetApp is wonderful for lowering TCO.

It seems that NetApp, especially when compared to EMC/Hitachi/HP/ETC, does a great job at ‘adopting to reality’ and aggressively pricing things and providing innovation.  At the same time, the point could be made that Linux on commodity hardware is more along the lines of reality (on the 4 points you mentioned) than Solaris on SUN hardware – and as a result, perhaps SUN could use a little bit of the medicine required to ‘adopt to reality’ as well…

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Brian Dunbar
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:21 PM
To: No More Linux!; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: The End of All Filers?

I have no opinion nor expertise on the legal issues.

From an operations perspective ..

ZFS is a good thing.
Open standards are a good thing.
Cheaper and more capable hardware is a good thing.
Lower operating costs are a good thing.

NetApp needs to adapt to reality.

Brian Dunbar
Systems Administrator
Plexus
Desk: (920) 751-3364
Cell: (920) 716-2027



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of No More Linux!
Sent: Thu 10/25/2007 9:31 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: The End of All Filers?

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/harvesting_from_a_troll