Murphy: I woke up cranky this morning to read all this EMC garbage about open software... I find it hysterical that EMC is trying to be the honest broker in the marketplace when they are guilty of the largest over-provisioning in history. Did you know that at least 50 percent of everything they shipped in the last three years is underutilized?
Byte and Switch: That much, eh? Then a strategy to create software that better utilizes that hardware is a good plan, no?
Murphy: Absolutely, but don't try and dress it up as "open" software that supports all hardware platforms equally. Their software initiative is a Trojan horse strategy to sell more hardware, don't be mistaken. It might support other platforms, but they will quietly tell you that it works best in EMC environments. All the intelligence will be in EMC's microkernel, which they will say is for reliability reasons. They will play the FUD [fear, uncertainly, and doubt] card.
Byte and Switch: But EMC split the company into three divisions, and the open systems software group, independent of the hardware division, is tasked with nothing but the job of creating the best open systems storage management software on the market. [See EMC Goes Soft and EMC Trifurcates.]
Murphy: OK, check out this piece of history. The original bones of Fujitsu Softek were carved out of a hardware company. We were part of the Amdahl group. To make it work, we had to be completely separate, with our own stock and our own board. It's impossible to do it in a large, old hardware company where vanity-versus-sanity runs the business. EMC cares about how much gear it has on the floor... Rivers flow certain ways on different sides of the world, and that will never change. I know their pain.
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