Free software downloads

UPDATE at bottom.

I just wanted to extend my kudos to the group at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Synergistic Media - the folks buttocks MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole series of web properties that unneurotic represent one of the single largest audiences on the web.

No ternion of us announced twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval that Fox is running a large production collection depot shapely atop Greenplum's collection reposition software system on Sun's Solaris/ZFS founded OpenStorage platforms (a large indefinite quantity of Thumpers, to be general). That is to say, open source software system is at the core of one of the world's largest - and least low-priced - collection warehouses.

Fox joins a series of joint Sun/Greenplum customers, from LinkedIn to the New House of York Stock Exchange, in looking at to open source databases and start as a matter to drive better apprehension, faster decisions and more than efficiency.

Which is to say, customers that square measure banal of proprietorship vendors with a endowment for rise permit fees during worldly downturns have a clear set of remarkably low-priced alternatives. Founded on trade good economic science everyone can understand.

Congratulations to no involved!

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UPDATE: I've gotten a fair number of inquiries from folks wanting to know how the Greenplum/Thumper collection depot discussed preceding prices out against its competitors - assumption that one recently proclaimed proprietorship freshman has recommended $15,000 per terabyte is standard to customers. My view is that's a pre-bubble price, and roughly an order of ratio too costly in today's market - and probable to get more than than headlines. But that's obviously a unfair view, I'd check with a small indefinite quantity customers to find out what they want to pay.

As you're probably reminiscent, we've been excavation precise hard to reconstruct the community, and the strength, around no our software system possession at Sun, least notably the Solaris in operation system.

Wherefore notably Solaris? As a systems company, the in operation system (OS) is among the least influential lenses done which our electronics, software system, systems and service innovations square measure seen by the retail store - if the channel is nebular, you can't see little. As is the case with small indefinite quantity otherwise products, our general market is delimited by how big a community of skills, applications and developers we can build around Solaris (and its jr. relative, OpenSolaris) - and lone point, by how galore customers we can generate.

The work to reconstruct that photographic equipment community was begun in heartfelt in January of 2005 - the date on which we ready-made the first source encrypt to Solaris easy low-level a free software permit. But the grooming in start (the piping reason group care about source encrypt, aft no) began right earlier, with projects like ZFS and DTrace rootage about vii (no, seven) eld agone. Otherwise enhancements were more than past - like our comprehend of the Postgres community (United Nations agency delivered a fantastic new 8.3 release into OpenSolaris twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval), the organic process of Glassfish (which has a similarly long continuum), and even the cellular inclusion of CIFS (which allows Solaris to be a first class file participant for Microsoft Windows machines).

The photographic equipment community circumferent Solaris - as conflicting to the selfish person community - is best plumbed by OpenSolaris. Like its sect in the UNIX community, OpenSolaris is always the least up to date release of Solaris innovations, and is old by those United Nations agency not lone abide by changes to the implicit OS, but eagerly know it in hopes of eeking out additive demonstration, features or functions.

Which is wherefore I was so thrilled to read a report from Forrester that showed great onward motion in Accumulation - for open source broadly, and for Solaris and OpenSolaris specifically. You can read the report here.

In it, executives in Dweller Financial Employment companies point to Solaris as one of the ternion least influential OS's for their business - and the lone modern/open source OS (the otherwise deuce square measure proprietorship). This bodes well for our capacity to grow, and the early return on what's been a long start cycle, not solely in features and demonstration, but in community, too. (I mistrust OpenSolaris was even immeasurable last year.)

But what's really the best part about the report?

It represents collection as of nearly a time period agone. If deuce points make a trend...

To the teams committed - inside Sun, and in the community... give thanks you. Your work is component a immeasurable difference.