I have a more generall question about intellectual rights around ZFS, when taking a look at the storage solution NexentaStor.
Perhaps not necessary to mention, but to be complete: NexentaStor has created a Open Source SAN solution that runs on commodity hardware. Compellent for example has a NAS based upon Nexenta. NexentaStor is based upon the ZFS filesystem and sounds (for that reason) very promising. Now i wonder what the threats are to this and if Oracle is one of them, when reading for example in a Gartner report: "Gartner cautions about the uncertain nature of future developments of the open-source ZFS code, as Oracle intends to focus on monetizing ZFS." * And on the Register i read: "One outcome is that Oracle agrees to license the relevant patents pertaining to ZFS from NetApp. This would then open the way for Coraid and other ZFS-using storage suppliers to have to license them as well, significantly upsetting their business models unless the license fees are set low." ** I would like to know what grip Oracle (or perhaps NetApp) has upon ZFS. Are parts of the code owned by Oracle? Can they put claims on parts of ZFS? Regards, Hans. * http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/hitachi/vol3/article2/article2.html?WT.ac=us_hp_sp1r21&_p=v ** http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/06/netapp_coraid/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
