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		hello_moto on Aug 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace an... They have a lot of investment around Solaris (let's not argue about Solaris, OpenSolaris, Illumos) since a few years ago. Brought a lot of ex-SUN engineers, hired open source activist around OpenSolaris, probably built their infrastructure around it as well.

rednaught on Aug 15, 2011 [–]

Thanks. But didn't they also have a lot of FreeBSD such as during the TextDrive days?

hello_moto on Aug 15, 2011 | [–]

Probably customer + talent acquisition as opposed to technology/infrastructure.

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