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Old 2nd December 2009
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I run FreeNAS for a friend of mine's business and
wish the project would stay with FreeBSD, but the point
"I think" is that Volker "wants" to give more features to users by switching..

My friend is not the technical and wants some that just works..
FreeNAS meets his needs..
That being said, he will stay with FreeNAS .7 using ZFS.

His Project -- His Choice -- His Time --
and OpenSource projects are all technically "hobby projects"
If you equate non-paid developers = Hobby Project.
Most OSS devs are not paid and volunteers.. much like this Wonderful forum...

OpenBSD being (IMHO of course) the biggest
"hobby project" since it is "by the developers", "for the developers"

Regarding Oracle /Sun merger..
It all about the bottom dollar.
I think we all understand that Companies buy other Companies to :
- squash competition
- buy technology they don't have or they competitor is better
- implement the newly acquired technology to add more functionality to their existing product..

I believe:
- Sparc sales must have been going down for some time so Sun started developing and using
AMD Opteron x64 architecture to extend the market to the Non-Enterprise level businesses and I personally feel that will be the trend.
- Why continue to make hardware that is essentially Enterprise Level when more and more companies
are moving toward x86 / x64 bit architecture..?

We are a Sun Shop and have boxes that cost 10's of thousands of $$$..
And we pay $$$ for support contracts every year..

I love Solaris but Sparc to me is way overpriced, we could easily move to
a x64 bit platform without any issues and would get more bang for the buck..

The trend of other organizations where I work is a move to Linux..
Why..
-- it meets the needs of the business
-- Support is very reasonable
-- very inexpensive x86 / x64 bit hardware

We should applaud the contribution for Volker continuing this OSS project not criticize him for
not using FreeBSD...

my Thoughts ...
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