Steve wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been reading a lot of the threads on here about the future of > opensolaris, and it seems that there *might* be a future, depending on whose > post you read. While I truly hope for that, I would like a definitive answer, > or at least one I could work off of in the future. > > Right now, my organization would like to implement a long-term data storage > solution (particularly with the advantages of ZFS (dedup, snapshotting, ease > of management, etc). > > Given the current circumstances with Oracle, and the lack of mostly > 'official' information, we've begun to reach the point where we might decide > to implement this service as a linux based solution, and leverage a linux > filesystem, especially since the hardware is coming very soon, and we need to > get working on it.
While trying not to sound too much like a salesman (since I'm not and this isn't the right forum for it), it's too bad you already ordered the hardware, since enterprise supported OpenSolaris-based storage servers is one area with a very clear roadmap: the Sun Storage 7000 series storage appliances continue to be enhanced with new features like ZFS dedup while maintaining a stable release and enterprise support, along with administrative and analytics enhancements above and beyond what's in the open/free versions of OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org