Re:ZFS Deduplication
by bensummers on Monday November 02, 2009 @10:54AM
(#916993)
Now Solaris is open source as OpenSolaris, it's possible for someone other than Sun to build a storage appliance without having to worry about license fees.
As an example, here's some people doing it right now: http://www.nexenta.com/
One word: 3Par.
(Longer version: 3Par was founded by ex-Sun types who wanted to make storage appliances based on Solaris. Sun responded by charging them outrageous licensing fees. They went with Linux and now their business is doing just fine...)