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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:00:06 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Christopher Korher <ckornher@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Potential Consulting Gig
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Friday morning sounds good.

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:58:36 -0700 Christopher Korher
<ckornher@mac.com> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> I am free tomorrow and Friday morning.
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Brian Stark wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I've copied Andy Sharp on this message,
> > who was not in our first meeting since he was on vacation.  Andy is
> > the ONStor lead on the user interface projects, so please set up
> > some time to meet with him to discuss what you've outlined below.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Korher [mailto:ckornher@mac.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:18 PM
> > To: Bill Fisher
> > Cc: Narayan Venkat; Bill Fisher; Brian Stark
> > Subject: Re: Potential Consulting Gig
> >
> > Narayan, Bill and Brian:
> >
> > Thanks for time and the opportunity to participate in this project.
> > I am back from the conference. It has been a busy week, but Tom and
> > I have looked at the NexentaStor Storage Appliance API and other
> > information that we have been able to find on the web.
> >
> > We have worked to come up with a solution that ca achieve some of
> > the goals you laid out in the meeting and that can fit within your
> > time and budget constraints.
> >
> > Here is the bad news:
> >
> > As far as we can tell, the Nexenta OS is open sourced, but the
> > management system (NexentaStor) is not. Of course, we do not know
> > the details of your agreement with Nexenta, but we assume that
> > replacing the NexentaStor management stack would require a "clean
> > room" implementation. Avoiding the use of D-Bus in the new system
> > would help reduce the likelihood of IP conflicts with Nexenta.
> >
> > We do not feel that replacing NexentaStor with a new, possibly  
> > cluster-
> > friendly solution is within the time and budget constraints that you
> > communicated to me during the meeting. I am not aware of an "off the
> > shelf" replacement for Nexenta, but integrating such a solution,
> > should it exist, might be within your time and budget constraints.
> >
> > As I mentioned in the meeting, I am working on a distributed system
> > solution that would replace D-Bus, significantly increase
> > capabilities and decrease development effort. Unfortunately, this
> > system is currently being re-written and will not be available for
> > at least 6 months. We believe that this system will be especially
> > useful to networking, storage and cloud computing vendors, so you
> > can expect to hear from me when we can demonstrate a system that we
> > feel is nearly ready for commercial use. It is the closest thing to
> > a "silver bullet" that I know of to get what you want within the
> > constraints you laid out.
> >
> > Here is what could be some good news:
> >
> > Replacing Nexenta was one of two goals that I identified in our
> > meeting. The other goal, what I would describe as "unifying your
> > product line", can be approached incrementally and we think that we
> > could help you to make significant progress in this area within the
> > time and budget constraints that you laid out.
> >
> > The extensive and well documented API of the Nexenta system that
> > presents a barrier to replacement is a great benefit to UI
> > development. We believe that the best first step is be to develop
> > some UI prototypes of replacements of Nexenta UI to develop the new
> > "look and feel" that you want.
> >
> > There are numerous technology options. From our discussion, it seems
> > that you wanted to continue with a Javascript-based UI. We should
> > probably discuss this in more detail, but based upon what I know of
> > current technologies and your requirements, the Cappuccino framework
> > is the best candidate technology for rapidly developing high-quality
> > UIs using Javascript. A small prototype will allow us to choose and
> > validate technologies before committing to using them.
> >
> > Of course, this is not all that you asked for, but we feel that it
> > is the best way for us to help you to make real progress toward your
> > goals.  While you would still be using Nexenta technology, the
> > ONStor user experience would be under your control and Nexenta
> > technology could be swapped-out in the future with at most a
> > minimal change to the user experience.
> >
> > If you think that this is a strategy that you might want to pursue,
> > I would like to meet with you again to make sure that our proposal
> > meets your needs. We can produce a proposal for a small fixed-price
> > project within two days after this meeting.
> >
> > Thank you again for this opportunity and I look forward to working
> > with you now or in the future.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> 
