Luke,
Luke Youngblood a écrit :
With an OF solution it is not as clear-cut. Who do I blame when OF
dies and takes my company's data with it? Do I blame CentOS?
Openfiler? Generic beige-box computer manufacturer?
How about blaming the guy who choosed OF (or CentOS or the generic
beige-box) and/or is administrating it ?
Or his chief/accounting guy because "we do not have the budget to build a
storage box but you have to build it anyway ?"
You could also ask yourself this question for _any_ software sold
separately from the hardware it runs on (yes, it also works for Microsoft
and Dell).
This is why a packaged and supported hardware+software solution is
enterprise, but a Linux distro that you can load on generic beige-box
hardware and create a mini-SAN out of is not.
This goes for _any_ software sold separately from the hardware it runs
on, not just storage !
Will you blame the Samba or RedHat or Dell (all of that being "officialy
supported) if your data got lost ? What would it bring to, anyway, to
have someone to blame once your data is lost ? Insurance purpose ?
Perhaps if Openfiler is available for a few more years and third-party
hardware manufacturers begin to build appliance solutions based on it
then you could begin to charge for support and updates.
Are you suggesting Open-e here ?
> But look at
Nessus for an example. Renaud spent many years on his product and
made it superior to every closed-source alternative before actually
charging money for updates. And you can still get it for free if
you're willing to wait 7 days for your updates.
Nessus is not an "appliance", and no "hardware manufacturers are building
appliance with it". Your whole demonstration does not work with Nessus 8)
Regards,
David.
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