Star Sun Open Sources Storage Software
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 19:54 UTC, submitted by adstro
SUN Microsystems "Today Sun extends its position as the top contributor of code to the free and open source software community by donating its storage software code to the OpenSolaris Project. This will enable community members to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create new storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors."
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RE: YAWN! Whats new?
by binarycrusader on Sat 14th Apr 2007 23:21 UTC in reply to "YAWN! Whats new?"
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2005-07-06

What a big yawn...they are trumpeting what is already open source and part of opensolaris for years now, and news sites are all printing articles likes this.


Wrong. This is actually a new code drop that was recently done, and was not part of OpenSolaris.

Notably, there is greatly expanded support for mpxio, iscsi, etc.

The only way this would be worthy of new is if they were changing the license to be a little less restrictive than the current one.


Are you kidding? The current license is one of the least restrictive copyleft licenses there are. The only thing less restrictive would be the BSD license.

Amazing what a press release with no real content and just the words "open source" can buy you for free.


You may wish to read up a bit on the new storage project:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/

Edited 2007-04-14 23:30 UTC

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