--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 08:01:01 PM -0700 Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Henry B. Hotz wrote: > >> I find it really >> difficult to invest time in learning single-platform technologies. > > That makes it difficult to do innovation, since we need to convince > other OSes to use our technology before you will use it :-). Perhaps, but convincing people to use a new technology is an important part of innovation. There is a big difference between providing a new technology and forcing us to use it whether we like it or not. DTrace is cool, but no one is forced to use it. ZFS is cool, but no one is forced to use it. If I want to use Solaris 10 or later, I am forced to use SMF, even though it creates headaches for me and solves no problem I actually have. > Personally, I now hate dealing w/ pre-S10 systems, since i have to > remember > how to enable/disable each sub-system separately... and I have to redo > that > every time I update the OS on the box. The difference between you and me is that you think in terms of "the box", whereas I think in terms of "the computing environment", which is managed as a unified whole, not as a collection of separate individually-managed boxes. My way scales; your way requires me to touch every box. "If I have to touch it, it doesn't scale". "The network is the computer" was a corny marketing slogan, but had a real grain of truth behind it. I encourage everyone here, whether from Sun or not, to find that grain of truth, grok it, and live by it. -- Jeff
