Compellent has been shipping its SAN appliances to small to medium-sized companies for three years, growing from $4 million in annual sales to more than $23 million last year. Part of the reason for that growth, says cofounder John Guider, is that Compellent executives have recognized the value of making an open source operating system one of the building blocks of the company’s SAN offerings. (more…)
January 12, 2008
eCos real-time OS makes short work of building a SAN appliance
Filed under: appliances, open source, open source business model, operating systems, real time os — tina @ 3:46 pm