On 8/13/2010 at 8:56 PM Eric D. Mudama wrote:
|On Fri, Aug 13 at 19:06, Frank Cusack wrote: |>Interesting POV, and I agree. Most of the many "distributions" of |>OpenSolaris had very little value-add. Nexenta was the most interesting |>and why should Oracle enable them to build a business at their expense? | |These distributions are, in theory, the "gateway drug" where people |can experiment inexpensively to try out new technologies (ZFS, dtrace, |crossbow, comstar, etc.) and eventually step up to Oracle's "big iron" |as their business grows. ============= Think: strategic business advantage. Oracle are not stupid, they recognize a jewel when they see one. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
