Hey francois,
The bottom line is simple. Rorke (Bell Micro) bought/developed ImageSAN OS X to help sell their SAN hardware. They are not a software company per se'. This is similar to why Apple bought/developed FCP, to sell Apple hardware. FCP was originally developed to run on both Apple and WinTel hardware. This didn't serve Apple's interests so today it only runs on Apple hardware. Although ImageSAN may currently run on all flavors of FibreChannel/SAN hardware I don't think Rorke will allow that to continue if Apple starts chewing into their lucrative hardware/storage business using the very software they developed to give them market leverage.
Just my two cents !
Bart
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