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May 5, 2008
Article #19552
Volume 123, Issue 1
Storage
 

if customers can control how data is stored and retrieved with open source software, they don't need to worry about vendor support.

-- Graham Lovell, Sun
 


Open Source Gives You the Key to Your Archives Forever
Sun Helps Avoid Vendor Lock-in


Sun has made yet more code available to the open source community. This time it involves Honeycomb, the fixed-content object storage software of the StorageTek 5800, as reported by Leslie T. O'Neill. Developers can download the binary code from Sun.com and run a complete implementation on their own server or even a laptop. [...read more...]

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