Ben Taylor said: "...They (Blastwave.org) comitted to Solaris 8, and thanks to folks there, they are riding that binary compatiblity guarantee to the Solaris 8 EOSL. And because of that, a bunch of folks who might do open source porting for Solaris, don't want to do Blastwave because of personalities controlling the direction and the mandatory Solaris 8 development platform (which also means no Studio 12)..."
Well... it has more to do with limited resources, legacy compiler issues, legacy OS issues (aka Solaris 8) with FOSS development/porting efforts, and the belief that Solaris 8 must live forever in academia. Many companies don't have the human resources to migrate an entire data center to a new OS (aka Solaris 10 or higher) in short notice. Not the type of data centers supporting millions of external/internal customers . With some politics comes some justifications within reason - no matter what simple logic or realistic reasoning there may be (i.e. Moore's law?). Yet, many companies eventually will move to Solaris 10 with new server/workstation deployments and upgrades. Adventerous souls may go with an 'reliable' and supported OpenSolaris distro. As for KDE 4.1 and Solaris/KDE 4.1 deployments, the simple build conclusion is Solaris 10 as the lowest denominator.... ~ Ken Mays -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
