Long time Plan 9 user ... and provider.
Our network storage products run Plan 9, as does our development lab. We have Macs for browser and things.
I used Plan 9 when I was employed briefly at Bell Labs Murray Hill. In 1995, when they opened it up, I switched to it and have been using it for all our products since. (I developed the PIX Firewall that Cisco purchased from our startup, and it used a very tiny executive I wrote, patterned after some of the bits of Plan 9.)
My kernel is a branch from the main 9fans based kernel, is a lot smaller, and is more in line with what Dennis Ritchie described to me in 1987.
We run Ken Thompson's file server and not Venti and Fossil. We still use the protocol IL, and other things of the original vision.
This is not an operating system to replace Linux. It's not for the main stream.
Brantley Coile
CEO/Founder Coraid
Creator of the PIX Firewall
Biting the hand that feeds IT
