Linux needs Open Source Marketing

The limits of open source engineering Hang with engineers for a while and griping about marketing is inevitable. The 3 Margarita lunches, the plush globetrotting, the hotties in Marcom and worst of all, they don’t understand the product. Next bench marketing...

Would you use OSS storage?

Amazon and Google have demonstrated commercially – as have a number of research projects such as Microsoft’s Boxwood – it is possible to build highly available storage out of commodity servers. The odd thing is that, AFAIK, there is no commercially...

Sun fires back at NetApp

Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has fired back at NetApp’s patent suit against Sun over ZFS, the advanced file system that promises to markedly increase data integrity for Sun and Apple users. From the “best defense is a strong offense” playbook...