Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Solaris use a Veritas
filesystem as the default filesystem (I know HP does).
If that is the case, then getting rid of royalities to Veritas
but still charging the same per license would increase
their profits. Sure sounds like motivation to me :)
Jeff
"Nathan J. Mehl" wrote:
> [a late response, my apologies]
>
> In the immortal words of Russell Cattelan (cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx):
> >
> > It wasn't an issue of gain or not gain for SGI but a sense of what could
> > be lost:
> > XFS on solaris seems to be the biggest fear.
>
> Is it?
>
> Sun is already shipping a number of GPLed utlities with Solaris 8.
> (Most notably and blessedly, /bin/bash.) There's even source code
> included, buried deeply back on installation CD #8934... I rather
> expect that if Sun thought they could gain some sort of competetive
> advantage from shipping Solaris 9 with XFS, they'd simply go ahead and
> do so with the existing GPL code.
>
> However, I can't see it happening. Sun has a strong financial
> disincentive against such a move: they currently make money off of
> selling "server" editions of Solaris (which bundle Solstice Disksuite)
> and rebadged copies of VXFS/VXVM for Solaris. Why ship for free what
> they currently make in the neighborhood of $5k/seat for? :)
>
> -n
>
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