> The one and only killer feature for End-Users is ZFS
> for Backup/Restore. Mac's Time-Machine does the 'same' job on a very
> old HFSplus-Filesystem. How it is technically secured and implemented
> doesn't matter. The user wants an additional value that comes with an
> easy to use feature. Time-Machine does it on it's own way. (Please
> don't spot on technical features of ZFS)
You hit the nail on the head, as the saying goes.
And here then, is the lesson:
"do one thing, and do it well."
-- Doug McIlroy, inventor of UNIX(R) pipe mechanism
So if Solaris *IS* *THE* operating system for *servers*, then that one
thing should be done, and it should be done well. It is quite obvious,
even to an outsider like myself, that Sun as an organization doesn't have
the resources of Apple computer to make it *ALL* be polished at the same
time.
And you know what? That's OK, it's fine! Just don't try to be all things
to everybody, focus on what you do BEST and do it EVEN BETTER.
And then, when that WORKS, then we can talk about the desktop
(which, by that time, will be likely obsolete by means of AJAX and web
browsers, so considerable effort and cost will be saved).
"Do one thing and do it well." People have tried to go against the core UNIX(R)
philosophy before, and failed, not because it's impossible or because it can't
be
done, but because they thought they knew better.
Finally, in line of Gerald's logic, why not bring the ultimate ZFS
deduplication to
the desktop user, by playing on the strengths of Solaris as a *server*?
If Solaris is a server, and a damn fine one at that, let it be a server to end
users'
multimedia content, instead of trying to *contort* Solaris into a superdesktop,
and
not having enough resources to pull it off?
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