On 9/30/2010 3:52 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > On 30/09/2010 18:05, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> Bill Moore and Jeff Bonwick have both left Oracle. It is certainly a >> sad day. >> >> > > Bill is working for Nexenta and he is working on ZFS :) > He is supposed to give a talk on ZFS's future at Open Storage Summit - > see http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com/
To say that Bill Moore is working for Nexenta is a bit of an overstatement. Bill joined their Advisory Board back in April 2010. As far as I am aware, that is as far as the relationship goes. http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/04/06/bill-moore-joins-nexenta-advisory-board/ One of the issues at this point is whether ZFS splinters into a number of incompatible deployments. Will it be possible to migrate a ZFS posix layer file system from Oracle Solaris 11 to Nexenta to FreeBSD to Debian BSD and still have the file system be usable. Oracle's decision to stop giving away their intellectual property to Nexenta to ship to end users before Oracle is able to ship and support Solaris Next makes a great deal of sense. The number of patchsets that were contributed to ZFS from outside Sun/Oracle were extremely small in number compared to the internal feature work. Oracle's decision to release source in conjunction with each Solaris release gives them the ability to profit from their investment while still permitting open source developers to make use of the code. --- On a separate note. A dozen e-mails in under 20 minutes to the same thread really is overkill. Jeffrey Altman
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