Below is the article IDG wrote back in November in regards to the 7000 launch.

I would have liked to see them at least MENTION the fact that all the included features are free under the GPL. Also, since the article was released, Sun has launched a clusterable version of the product for High Availability where required.

Sun rolls out its own storage appliances

What Sun lacks in size as a storage vendor it is trying to make up for with innovation as it rolls out a series of appliances that include advanced management software and solid-state drives.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&...