I'm in IT and have an interest in the edges. Have minimal programming, some scripting, ability to tie things together, (db's, code, servers and storage).
It's akin to the lobster-in-a-boiling-pot scenario.
Put a lobster in already boiling water and it screams, stick it in room-temp water and heat to boiling and the lobster won't notice it's being cooked until it's too late...
Thank you for using a lobster instead of a frog, because I went to see if lobsters were mentioned on the wikipedia page for boiling frogs, and there was a reference there to another entry for "creeping normalcy". I like that phrase.
Yeah, it's frustrating that it gets propagated as truth rather than allegory. Some day I'd like it to find a home amongst Aesop's fables. The fox and the grapes, the tortise and the hare, the boiling frog...
1. Sun's shared source license sucks and this is why ZFS isn't natively supported in Linux.
2. btrfs will soon have better features/performance/stability than ZFS, and a better architecture to boot: http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/
"Soon", maybe, but it will take a long time for it to be Generally Recognised As Reliable. (For all I argue against buying I to a brand just because, I do like ZFS more with Sun's name behind it)