[MBCook]

It would fit jobs though.

That’s one of the famous rumors.

As others here have said Oracle bought Sun two years later. Between me increased memory requirements, uncertainty due to Sun’s status as an ongoing concern, and who knows what else maybe it really did make sense not to go forward.

[kergonath]

As other also said, there were patent issues around ZFS: https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/NetApp's_filesystem...

[JCattheATM]

The ZFS code was already released under the CDDL. What was stopping Apple from writing their own implementation like OpenZFS and FreeBSD, regardless of what happened with Sun?