[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

[Booker Bense]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Vincent Fox wrote:

> On 09/28/2010 04:13 PM, Rich Sudlow wrote:
>>   that being said we're also looking for fileserver
>> alternatives due to Oracle takeover. 
>
> What's your reasoning here?
>

Oracle is making it pretty clear that Solaris is only for
Solaris hardware and they are changing the support/price
structure.

Ideally, we'd like to run Solaris on commodity x86 boxes rather 
than the increasingly expensive thumper boxes.

For whatever reason Oracle is pricing themselves out of the 
market wrt to generic hardware.

_ Booker C. Bense