From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brantley Coile Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 17:09:22 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <08DE13DA-39B5-4C48-9E18-A3ABE9F74113@me.com> MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2098\)) Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 on SRX/VSX rides again Topicbox-Message-UUID: 542338e6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I=E2=80=99m happy to report we are back in the storage business based on = Plan 9. We acquired the rights to the SRX/VSX and HBA initiator drivers = and will be selling, supporting and advancing the technology. I had = been working on a non-Plan 9 appliance platform to avoid any conflict = with Coraid, but now that=E2=80=99s not a problem. I=E2=80=99ll be = integrating the new stuff I=E2=80=99ve been working on over the past = several months into the Coraid products. We=E2=80=99ll use The Brantley = Coile Company to market the SRX and VSX as software, not hardware. = We=E2=80=99ll release the specs for buying your own SRX hardware. The SRX and VSX code will also be open sourced.=20 It feels nice to have the technology back where it originated from. Brantley bwc@EtherDrive.com=