Leaving Oracle

Leaving Oracle

[Chris Mason]

Hello everyone,

Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.

>From a Btrfs point of view, very little will change.  I'll still
maintain Btrfs and will continue all of my Btrfs development in the
open.  Oracle will still use Btrfs in their Oracle Linux products, and
I'll work with all of the distros using Btrfs in production.

Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
them shape the future of high performance storage.

chris.mason@oracle.com will probably stop working this Friday June 8th.
chris.mason@fusionio.com will be my new email address.

Just let me know if you have any questions.

-chris

Re: Leaving Oracle

[Hugo Mills]

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:04:48PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
> support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
> Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.

   Congratulations! I hope it's fruitful and enjoyable for you.

> From a Btrfs point of view, very little will change.  I'll still
> maintain Btrfs and will continue all of my Btrfs development in the
> open.  Oracle will still use Btrfs in their Oracle Linux products, and
> I'll work with all of the distros using Btrfs in production.

   This is also a relief. :)

> Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
> them shape the future of high performance storage.
> 
> chris.mason@oracle.com will probably stop working this Friday June 8th.
> chris.mason@fusionio.com will be my new email address.
> 
> Just let me know if you have any questions.

   Hugo.

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Re: Leaving Oracle

[David Pottage]

On 07/06/12 02:04, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
> support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
> Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.
Congratulations.
> Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
> them shape the future of high performance storage.

Are you sure about that?

I installed one of their IO Drive SSD cards in one of my employer's 
servers, and while the driver source code was supplied, the licence was 
definitely not open source. (See http://www.fusionio.com/legal/eula/)
> 4.1         General Restrictions.  [...] you will not, and will not 
> permit or authorize third parties to: (a) reproduce, modify, 
> translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or 
> create derivative works of the Software; 

Re: Leaving Oracle

[Chris Mason]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:01:28PM -0600, David Pottage wrote:
> On 07/06/12 02:04, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their
> > support for my projects.  But, I've decided to take a new position at
> > Fusion-io.  I will start the new job on Monday, June 11.
> Congratulations.
> > Fusion-io really believes in open source, and I'm excited to help
> > them shape the future of high performance storage.
> 
> Are you sure about that?
> 
> I installed one of their IO Drive SSD cards in one of my employer's 
> servers, and while the driver source code was supplied, the licence was 
> definitely not open source. (See http://www.fusionio.com/legal/eula/)
> > 4.1         General Restrictions.  [...] you will not, and will not 
> > permit or authorize third parties to: (a) reproduce, modify, 
> > translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or 
> > create derivative works of the Software; 
> 

Hi everyone,

Circling back around to this, now that I'm up and running again.

Most of your storage is hidden behind some kind of closed source
firmware.  With Fusion-io, you get a closed driver, and that has its own
long standing debates that won't get resolved here.

Fusion-io has a strong track record of contributing to Linux, and I'm
sure we'll keep hiring more developers that are well known in the
community.

Of course, Btrfs is a GPL project, and all the future work in Btrfs is
going to stay GPL.

The great thing about Fusion-io is they are very actively trying to
engage higher parts of the storage stack to take advantage of the
hardware.  Since these features need to be in upstream filesystems,
we'll have to hammer out nice generic apis to take advantage of
them.

(This is my favorite kind of we that really means Jens Axboe)

Anyone who wants to support a backend for the apis is welcome to do so,
and I'm sure they will change over time as we all figure out what works
best.

Long story short, yes, I am sure that Fusion-io cares about open source.
Oracle too, since a few people misread that line as a dig at Oracle.

-chris