Could someone expound a bit on what "vale openSolaris" refers to, for
those of us that don't follow Oracle/Sun that closely? A Google search
turns up little of use.
Thanks.
On 08/16/2010 09:26 AM, David Boyes wrote:
Any comments from this august assemblage ?. I suppose David has
more reason than most to feel umbrage.
Without getting myself back on the front page of the Register
correcting technobloggers, I would still point out that Oracle cannot
take away the source they have already released -- they don't own all
the rights to it (for once, the CDDL actually does something
positive). OpenSolaris on Z is still engaged, but at a much reduced
priority while we see what plays out. The Illumos/Nexenta effort
appears to be serious enough to merit additional discussion of what
to do next -- at least we no longer need the closed source libi18n to
build the OpenSolaris kernel, and they seem to be making good
progress on the kernel lock manager and crypto bits that were the
last remaining closed source bits. I might even release the Power
code if they actually get those two pieces done. The new instructions
in Power7 are actually very helpful for writing operating systems.
As for Oracle, well, meh. I don't have much incentive to contribute
anything back to their project(s) or recommend their software, that's
for certain. It's really too bad that IBM muffed the Sun purchase,
but ... yeah. C'est la vie. Es geht wie es geht. No matter -- I have
plenty more good ideas. After all, I haven't messed up IBM's
marketing strategy and message for at least 6 months.... 8-)
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