Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Sun's Network Innovations (3 of 4) - 0 views
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this datacenter systems market is more than $150b annually. And in this datacenter market we build exceptional systems
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more than just naked components, they're engineered with remote management and monitoring, component redundancy, integrated virtualization, and on board storage and networking. That's why our margins are higher than the industry's
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we now build our entire line of storage systems from general purpose server parts, including Solaris and ZFS, our open source file system.
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using a general purpose OS allows us to easily embrace specialized components (from flash memory to GPU's)
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why am I paying you a million dollars?" I responded, "You can absolutely run it for free. You just can't call me on Christmas day, you'll be on your own." He gave me the PO.
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Solaris OEM agreements with IBM, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu and HP are so important to our end customers - they know they'll never be locked in.
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These open source platforms generate, alongside the services attached to them, over a billion dollars a year, making Sun by far and away the world's largest open source software company.
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Fighting free and open software, like fighting free news or free search, is like fighting gravity - and btw, gravity gets a lot stronger during economic downturns.
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There is a robust, well-designed open source PBX Server called SipX that is primarily backed by Nortel (due to their acquisition of the creators, Pingtel).