On Wed, Jul 14 at 23:51, Tim Cook wrote:
Out of the fortune 500, I'd be willing to bet there's exactly zero companies that use whitebox systems, and for a reason. --Tim
Sure, some core SAP system or HR data warehouse runs on name-brand gear, and maybe they have massive SANs with various capabilities that run on name brand gear as well, but I'd guess that most every fortune 500 company buys some large number of generic machines as well. (generic being anything from newegg build-it-yourself to the bargain SKUs from major PC companies that may not have mission-critical support contracts associated with them) Any company that believes it can add more value in their IT supply chain than the vendor they'd be buying from would be foolish not to put energy into that space (if they can "afford" to.) Google is but a single example, though I am sure there are others. -- Eric D. Mudama edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
