On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote:
>> > This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though.
>>
>> As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because
>> that would have brought considerable attention to the opportunity of
>> marketing and offering zfs-suitable hardware to the consumer arena.
>> Port-multiplier boxes already seem to be targetted most at the Apple
>> crowd, even it's only in hope of scoring a better margin.
>>
>> Otherwise, bad analogies, whether about cars or fruit, don't help.
>>
>>
> It might help people to understand how ridiculous they sound going on and
> on about buying a premium storage appliance without any storage.  I think
> the car analogy was dead on.  You don't have to agree with a vendors
> practices to understand them.  If you have a more fitting analogy, then by
> all means lets hear it.
>


Dell joins the party:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041335.html

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Giovanni
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