On: Why Oxide Chose Illumos

[ReleaseCandidat]

But that doesn't make sense if you have specialists for $A that also like to work with $A. Why should I as a customer trust Illumos/Bhye developers that are using Linux/KVM instead of "real" Linux/KVM developers? The only thing that such a decision would tell me is to not even think about using Illumos or Bhyve.

The difference between

    "Buy our Illumos/Bhye solution! Why? I have been an Illumos/Bhyve Maintainer!"

and

    "Buy our Linux/KVM solution! Why? I have been an Illumos/Bhyve Maintainer!"

should make my point a bit clearer

[panick21_ → ReleaseCandidat]

Those are not the only options. You can have KVM on Illumos, or Bhye on FreeBSD.

And finding people to heir that know Linux/KVM wouldn't be a problem for them.

This evaluation was done years ago and they added like 50 people since then.

Saying 'We have a great KVM Team but our CEO was once an Illumos developer' is perfectly reasonable.

And as I point out in my other comment, the former Joyant people like know more about KVM then anything else anyway. So it would be:

"Buy our KVM Solution, we have KVM experts"

But they evaluated that Bhyve was better then KVM despite that.

[ReleaseCandidat → panick21_]

> "Buy our KVM Solution, we have KVM experts"

Of course, but that is less of unique selling point.

> But they evaluated that Bhyve was better then KVM despite that.

If you are selling Bhyve you better say that whether it's true or not. So why should I, as a reader or employee or customer, trust them?

[panick21_ → ReleaseCandidat]

> Of course, but that is less of unique selling point.

Who cares about uniqueness? That's not a goal.

> If you are selling Bhyve you better say that whether it's true or not. So why should I, as a reader or employee or customer, trust them?

They are not selling Bhyve. This is an internal document. Their costumers don't care about the implementation details. And if they do, then they will do their own evaluation based on their own evaluation.

As an employee you trust it because you know how the company heirs and who wrote these RFDs.

As a reader, its literally like any other thing on the internet.