David Magda wrote:
On Wed, October 28, 2009 11:24, Frank Middleton wrote:
However, you are certainly correct that Sun's business model isn't
aimed at retail, although one wonders about the size of the market
for robust SOHO/Home file/media servers that no one seems to be
addressing right now (well, Apple, maybe, although they are not
explicit about it and they don't offer ZFS...).
Depending on the level of "rubustness" you want, there's always things
like ReadyNAS and similar products.
The "problem" is that many of these units use 'embedded' processors, and
(Open)Solaris does not readily run on many of them (e.g., PowerPC- and
ARM-based SoCs). Though AFAIK, ReadyNAS actually runs (ran?) on SPARC
(Leon), but used Linux nonetheless.
OpenSolaris is on its way to running on ARM.
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm/
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Darren J Moffat
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