Jonathan Schwartz's BlogJonathan Schwartz's BlogZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk- October 24, 2007 About a month ago, Network Appliance sued Sun to try to stop the competitive impact of ZFS on their business. I can understand why they're upset - when Linux first came on the scene in Sun's core market, there were some here who responded the same way, asking "who can we sue" But seeing the future, we didn't file an injunction to stop competition - instead, we joined the free software community and innovated. One of the ways we innovated was to create a magical file system called ZFS - which..http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/harvesting_from_a_troll Hugging Customers (Not Trees)- October 17, 2007 (Update - Interview with Dave Douglas, Sun's VP, Economic-Responsibility at bottom of this entry) A few folks know I like to cook. It pairs well with liking to eat. A good friend gave me a beautiful cookbook last year, Thomas Keller's The French Laundry Cookbook. It's gorgeous book, but I will admit to having prepared a dish from it only once - the recipes are complicated, and take far more time than I typically have (the author admits, up front, people like me aren't his target...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/hugging_customers Going Bollywood- October 8, 2007 I just got back from a series of customer meetings with technologists from the telecommunications, media and entertainment industry (they are, after all, converging on the same market, monetizing consumers). I was joined by Greg, and a number of folks from Sun, notably Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, along with Matt Ahrens, the co-inventors of the ZFS file system. All three industries are largely underserved by innovation - their requirements and opportunities are vastly outstripping the rate at.http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/going_bollywood |