After fiascos with PC-BSD and iocage abandonwares iXsystems is now three for three in my playbook. Anything they take under their control seems to turn into the dust. I would not touch any product that comes out of iXsystems even with a 3 feet long broomstick.
iocage was abandoned by its original author upon receiving an offer from iXsystem to rewrite the tool in the another language for internal iXsystems consumption.iocage at that time reached a sweet spot in terms of usability and I was one of quite a few people stuck with multiple jail hosts in production (with paid customers) managing them with a dead tool. Sure enough a good soul forked iocage and now we have iocell but it really left me with bitter taste in the mouth. Can you imagine Red Hat abandoning KVM to adopt yet to be written tool without clear migration path? Sure the tool was free so yes they have zero obligations towards people like myself. So yes technically they didn't do anything wrong. By the way iXsystems ended up trying to build their next product around Linux technologies. Don't get me started with the whole PC-BSD 10 to TrueOS 11 fiasco. iXsystems is in business of making money and I should have known better.
