A February 2007 IDC Insight opinion paper analyzes the market opportunities for a development project from Sun code-named "FishWorks" ("Fish" refers to "fully integrated software and hardware"), a NAS appliance that uses the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) as its base.

Sun has not released plans to commercialize the project, according to the report. The software appliance will leverage ZFS from Solaris 10 OS. It will integrate the OS and application into one package.

IDC asserts if the project is offered in component form instead of just integrated form, there will be more market opportunity. The report explains: "If Sun plans to push only its hardware agenda, the addressable market will be limited to the hardware appliances market. However, if Sun chose to leverage virtualization technologies, whether from VMware or from Xen, the company would be able to address the software market as well."

For more details, see the full report. [...read more...]

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