> >> I can agree that the software is the one that really has the added
> >> value, but to my opinion allowing a stack like Fishworks to run
> >>outside
> >> the Sun Unified Storage would lead to lower price per unit(Fishwork
> >> license) but maybe increase revenue.
> >
> >I'm afraid I don't see that argument at all; I think that the
> >economics
> >that you're advocating would be more than undermined by the
> >necessarily
> >higher costs of validating and supporting a broader range of
> >hardware and
> >firmware...
>
> (Just playing Devil's Advocate here)
>
> There could be no economics at all. A basic warranty would be provided
> but running a standalone product is a wholly on your own proposition
> once one ventures outside a very small hardware support matrix.
>
> Perhaps Fishworks/AK would have a OpenSolaris edition - leave the bulk
> of the actual hardware support up to a support infrastructure that's
> already geared towards making wide ranges of hardware supportable -
> OpenSolaris/Solaris, after all, does allow that.
>
> Perhaps this could be a version of Fishworks that's not as integrated
> with what you get on a SUS platform; if some of the Fishworks
> functionality that depends on a precise hardware combo could be
> reduced or generalized, perhaps it's worth consideration. Knowing the
> little I do about what's going on under the hood of a SUS system, I
> wouldn't expect the version of Fishworks uses on the SUS systems to
> have 100% parity with a unbundled Fishworks edition - but the core
> features, by and large, would convey.
Why would we do this? I'm all for zero-cost endeavors, but this isn't
zero-cost -- and I'm having a hard time seeing the business case here,
especially when we have so many paying customers for whom the business
case for our time and energy is crystal clear...
- Bryan
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Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc
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