I was in Washington, D.C., over spring break with my kids and was struck by the similiarities between the early American colonies trying to get together to accomplish a union and the open source communities of today. These two groups, separated by 200+ years, had similar goals -- Governments/Communities for the people and by the people.


Today we're announcing a focused, updated OpenSolaris Storage community. It's storage software for the people and by the people. No more vendor lock-in (or King Georges') for either developers or deployers.

We're bringing the open source revolution to the storage industry in big way. We're putting our storage software investments out in the open with the explicit goal of creating a more vibrant open source storage community for the storage industry.

It turns out that Solaris and OpenSolaris make a great storage platform. Several of our Sun customers have known this for years. Solaris does a very good job of supporting data intensive applications and with recent features like ZFS, modern NFS, Shared QFS, iSCSI, Object Storage Devices, Storage Archive Manager, and Availability Suite which provide volume snapshot and network data replication services, Solaris has emerged as a leading storage platform capable of serving the most intense data environments. Note: There's a lot more great storage technology in OpenSolaris... check out the Storage community for more details.

Now we want to open up this great storage platform to the rest of the industry and make it even more useful for deployers and developers.

What would you like to contribute?