In my opinion the way Mikrotik is taking centering in storage and containers is wrong. The vast majority of equipment don’t have storage/ram/power to use that advanced features in a cool way. Consider center the way in that you really do well from the beggining, networking. When you open your solution to more and more features create more probability of bugs that need to be continuosly patched.
You sell network equipment at last. Do good networking solution like ever. That and price are that do Mikrotik strong. In my opinion you should center in improving networking.
Best Regards.
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From my experience on the forum, I could answer you as I would expect a MikroTik staff member to:
The resources used for storage and containers are not taken away from the networking side,
and they cannot be moved because they are specialized in that, not the network.
If a MikroTik member ever replies to you in this topic, the gist of the reply will probably be that...
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It’s an easy correct political anwser. I don’t really spect nothing about them. They have their “route” of bussiness decided and I don’t pretend any answer. It’s only to create a little of debate with other people that think the same.
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MikroTik has always been a bit of a tinkerer’s company. It started out as a software company, and the product was something you could put on most computers.
I also remember seeing some of their wireless stuff back then, which was mostly barebones.
When the RB5009 came out, it was marketed as the home lab router. It was designed to appeal to a broad range of users.
With the 2x16 series of routers, they have devices that have oodles of excess compute and RAM capabilities. A 2116 outfitted with some NVMe storage is a perfect SOHO router + switch + server combination, and I for one am glad I have the ability to put some customized software on my fleet of CCR2116’s.
I think the storage/container bits are ways to scratch a few more of those homelab itches that their broad DIY base of customers have, not to mention the employees to see the potential, particularly in devices we haven’t seen released yet.
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