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Re: [News] Sun Insists OpenSolaris is Not a Linux Ripoff

____/ BearItAll on Monday 30 July 2007 08:26 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' not a Linux copy
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Murdock also refused to talk about Sun's FISHworks project – billed as a
>> | NetApp killer.
>> | 
>> | Sun has put some of its top Solaris engineers in charge of a
>> | software/hardware effort meant to create a solid network attached
>> | storage (NAS) appliance. The company demoed this project to analysts
>> | early this year, although it refuses to give reporters the same honor.
>> | 
>> | We did track down Adam Levanthal, one of the FISHworks leads and
>> | co-authors of DTrace, at OSCON. He revealed that the product should ship
>> | early next year and that it includes some special sauce above Solaris
>> | for handling storage.
>> | 
>> | "I'm not going to talk to you about it more than that," he said, rather
>> | bluntly.
>> | 
>> | Why not just slap us in the face?
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/29/sun_projectindiana_oscon/
>> 
> 
> Ashley Vance, it isn't a slap in the face when designers refuse to talk
> about an upcoming product, it's standard practice.

Ashley Vance has an attitude thing and he also writes in a away that provokes.
Well, most of the Register is like that.

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