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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:52:47 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Christopher Korher <ckornher@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Potential Consulting Gig
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Ah, I knew there was something I was forgetting to do today.

Yes, tomorrow should be fine, shall we say 11?  I believe you know the
way to our office.

Cheers,

a


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:51:45 -0700 Christopher Korher
<ckornher@mac.com> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> Do you have a time for tomorrow's meeting yet?
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> 
