Trevor,
Could not agree more, but not every costumer likes to have only a fancy GUI, even that this GUI is very well designed. However my point of view is based on the fact that the part of the software behind the Fishworks could be possible to install in other Sun servers, besides the 7xxx series. Regarding APPLE...well they have marketing gurus Bruno On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:47:31 +1300, Trevor Pretty wrote: Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi, I can agree that the software is the one that really has the added value, but to my opinion allowing a stack like Fishworks to run outside the Sun Unified Storage would lead to lower price per unit(Fishwork license) but maybe increase revenue. Why an increase in revenues? Well, i assume that alot of customers would buy the Fishworks to put into they XYZ high-end server. But in Bryan's blog...... http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/date/200811 [1] "but one that also embedded an apt acronym: "FISH", Mike explained, stood for "fully-integrated software and hardware" -- which is exactly what we wanted to go build. I agreed that it captured us perfectly -- and Fishworks was born." Bruno I agree it would be great to have this sort of BUI on OpenSolaris, for example it makes CIFS integration in a AD/Windows shop a breeze, even I got it to work in a couple of minutes, but this would not be FISH. What the Fishworks team have shown is that Sun can make a admin GUI that is easy to use if they have a goal. Perhaps Oracle will help, but I see more lost sales of Solaris due it it being "difficult to manage" than any other reason. We may all not like MS Windows, but you can't say it's not easy to use. Compare it's RBAC implementation with Solaris. One is a straight forward tick GUI (admittedly not very extensible as far as I can see), the other a complete nightmare of files that need editing with vi! Guess which one is used the most? OpenSolaris is getting there, but 99% of all Sun's customers never see it as they are on Solaris 10. I recently bought a laptop just to run OpenSolaris and most things "just work"; it's my preferred desktop at home, but it still only does the simple stuff that Mac and Windows have done for years. Using any of the advance features however requires a degree in Systems Engineering. Ever wondered what makes Apple so successful? Apple makes FISH. __ www.eagle.co.nz [2] This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MAILSCANNER [3], and is believed to be clean. -- Bruno Sousa Links: ------ [1] http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/date/200811 [2] http://www.eagle.co.nz/ [3] http://www.mailscanner.info/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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