On 29/09/2010 01:47, Russ Allbery wrote:
Vincent Fox<[email protected]> writes:
On 09/28/2010 04:13 PM, Rich Sudlow wrote:
that being said we're also looking for fileserver alternatives due to
Oracle takeover.
What's your reasoning here?
If anything I'd expect them to put effort into optimizing it
which Sun was letting languish recently.
Oracle so far appears to be pursuing a general policy of slowly ceasing
all open source development that Sun was doing. I'm sure ZFS will
continue to exist in some form, but I expect the Oracle version of it to
become a commercial software product you have to license.
ZFS is the main filesystem for Solaris 11 - you will no longer even be
able to use UFS for root-fs.
ZFS is the filesystem behind Oracle 7000 series disk arrays.
They have just announced they are going to use Solaris 11/ZFS in their
future versions of Exadata.
IMHO ZFS is the key platform for Oracle and they already are investing
in it.
Oracle is not an open source company and appears to have little to no
interest in becoming one.
Why does it matter for you if ZFS is being developed in open or not?
btw: according to the leaked memo Oracle will provide source code for
Solaris, including ZFS, everytime they produce a new Solaris release.
This would mean that it will still be open source, but development
wouldn't happen in open.
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Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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