On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:05:41PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Linder, Doug wrote: > >Out of sheer curiosity - and I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering > >- how does ZFS make money for Oracle when they don't charge for it? Do > >you think it's such an important feature that it's a big factor in > >customers picking Solaris over other platforms? > > > > Yes, it is one of many significant factors in customers choosing Solaris > over other OS's. > Having chosen Solaris, customers then tend to buy Sun/Oracle systems to > run it on.
2x hit the nail on the head. But only if one doesn't have to sell its kingdom to get recommended/security patches. Otherwise the windooze nerds take over ... Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
