Matt Asay got it ....

Matt Asay got the rational behind Suns Open Storage move. He writes about it in “Sun’s Open Storage play: Do unto others…”. OpenStorage was introduced to do to the storage vendors just the same as x86 and Linux did to us. Plain and simple. It worked once, it will work again. Some people may say “Oh, Open Storage can´t compete with my favourite brand of storage”. Well … we said the same about Linux and x86 some years ago in regard of servers …