Let me mention what I am interested in:
Binary compatibility to existing (pre Oracle) Solaris installations.
Why?
I've enjoyed Solaris binary compatibility with database and market data
systems and old apps as much as anyone. But that was in environments
that had paid for those things and were paying for support etc. They
will not be using anything thisgroup will create for that anytime soon.
Compatibility to SVID3 (Svr4 compliance) where possible.
Why?
Compatibility to all POSIX versions if possible.
Why?
(Yes I know this is heretical on one level; but what do you get *in
practice* that actually matters?)
The problem is: by the time you attain standards compatibility, what
will be the relevance of that compatibility for ordinary people, who
just want to do their day job? And how many people will you alienate
and disenfranchise by slavish attempts to stick to de jure standards?
A de jure standard is only useful if its what people need. Has it
occured to you that a shift to a (sometimes inferior) de facto standard
might indicate that the de jure standard just isn't that useful any more?
When there was half a dozen big-iron UNIX vendors and we all had
heterogeneous networks, sure - it all mattered. But I'm really not so
sure it does anymore.
There is a level on which I think Ian was trying to save you from
yourself. Sun certainly went on and executed badly though, no question
about that.
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