[advocacy-discuss] Any responses to this Infoworld Article ?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Simon Phipps wrote:
>> Zemlin also disputes Sun's notion that Solaris technology gives it  
>> an edge over Linux. "The only people I hear talk about DTrace  
>> [Solaris's technology for assessing program and OS behaviours] and  
>> ZFS [the Zettabyte File System] as competitive features [are] Sun  
>> Microsystems sales representatives. It's not something I believe is  
>> impacting the market in any way," he says.
> 
> That would be why NetApp was worried enough to start a lawsuit, why  
> ZFS for FUSE just reached v0.5 and why the Linux Foundation is  
> sponsoring work on SystemTap.

It also seems to point out that Zemlin is so much into marketing and
away from the technical side, he doesn't even know what the Linux
Foundation's own technical people are saying about Dtrace vs. SystemTap:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-June/000171.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-June/000173.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000217.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000243.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000264.html
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000270.html

Certainly no one would accuse Linux Foundation Chief Platform Strategist
Ted Tso of being a "Sun Microsystems sales representative" (and he still
manages to get in digs about the small number of non-Sun engineers working
on OpenSolaris in the process).

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