[content-discuss] Article Idea

[Jim Grisanzio]

I'm forwarding part of this thread:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=6964&tstart=0

Bill suggested that David's situation may make a good article. David 
seems to agree. I do, too. So, I thought you'd like to see some of 
David's thoughts and my ideas for a piece.

Jim



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [nfs-discuss] New to ZFS/NFS - Question concerning permissions
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:25:15 -0800
From: Jim Grisanzio <jim.grisanzio at sun.com>
To: David J. Orman <ormandj at corenode.com>
CC: bill at rushmores.net,  nfs-discuss at opensolaris.org

David ... cool. Let's do it. I'll forward your mail to the content
project alias ( content-discuss at opensolaris.org ) and we can talk about
processes, review, etc. Anyone interested in participating, please feel
free to jump in. I think a piece like this would take some time, it
would probably need some artwork, and it would certainly need technical
review.

Jim


David J. Orman wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> It sounds like a wonderful idea, maybe it would also help other people see
> the advantages that using Sun systems could bring them. I have a lot of
> information I can share concerning my movement forward in this area, from
> the first mention of Solaris to me, until the present. Everything from
> failures to successes, and plenty of surprises too.
> 
> I'd be happy to help out however I could, with the amount of free
> "support" I've gotten from the OSOL community for my *commercial* venture,
> I feel a sense of responsibility to give back at least as much as I have
> recieved!
> 
> That is the beauty of an open development model where the engineers who
> are normally delegated to cubicals with no social interaction are let lose
> with the people who use the software/hardware they write. :) There is a
> symbiotic relationship between the producers and the consumers, and they
> both influence each other in a positive fashion. The producers learn what
> the consumers *really* want, and the consumers learn how to use what the
> producers created to the full extent. No longer are you reliant on surveys
> and other flawed statistical analysis to get an accurate picture of your
> customer base.
> 
> Solaris has a lot going for it now, and especially when S10U2 hits the
> shelves it's going to be a solution that solves a LOT of headaches. With
> the SarbOx requirements coming due soon enough, storage needs will be at
> an all-time high. Data integrity and validity will as well. ZFS makes a
> perfect solution for this, and you can have it for *free*. Maybe a simple
> case study will be enough to show companies how this can impact their
> business in a positive fashion. Just a few thousand dollars worth of Sun
> equipment later and they to can be on their way to sleeping peacefully at
> night when the SarbOx enforcers come knocking on people's doors. I
> wouldn't want to be the tech guy at a company who doesn't have something
> like ZFS handling their data store.
> 
> I'm a long-time FreeBSD user, and prior to that a Linux guy. I came upon
> Solaris by accident, and after my initial trials I was very unimpressed. A
> lot of that has changed in the recent past. Like most things, it takes
> some effort to see the advantages when you don't really even know what to
> look for. Maybe a nice writeup of real-world planning, analysis, and
> implementation could help people save a lot of time. :)
> 
> Anyways, I think we are deviating from the original topic, so if you'd
> like to continue this further, direct me to the list or contact me
> directly via this email address.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> PS - Cool, I've never been in a blog before! I feel special!
> 
> 





>>Hello, David.
>>
>>Bill Rushmore pointed this out to me in the Content Project today, and I
>>think it could make an interesting Case Study -- need, evaluation,
>>implemention, Sun systems, Solaris and OpenSolaris community elements,
>>the whole thing. Would you be interested in considering that for an
>>article?
>>
>>We have a Content Project going here:
>>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/
>>
>>And we are starting to post peer-reviewed articles here:
>>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/articles/
>>
>>Perhaps this could be a Case Study that you write. Perhaps it's
>>something that someone else writes by interviewing you and digs into the
>>technology issues, etc. I see Peter Harvey blogged about it, so maybe
>>he'd be interested in writing a longer article about the system you end
>>up building and how you built it.
>>
>>We can talk about the specifics of the piece later, but I just wanted to
>>float the idea to you guys to see if there was some interest.
>>
>>Jim
>>--
>>Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
>>http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/