John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote:
I value your self-reply...
and I have no problem if the next Indiana release will get delayed if
it fixes the problems that currently make the desktup users disappointed.
> I get the impression this is a one-way street - value only flows from
> Oracle to the Community. No mention of the value that the community
> itself produces; the comment about investing more in their proprietary
> Solaris seems to imply that Oracle's focus has moved *away* from our
> open source community...
>
> Under Sun's direction, there was a desire and commitment to
> participate fully in the OpenSolaris open source community, by
> contributing innovative technologies to the community, by taking
> leadership roles in the community and by incorporating the work of the
> community back into its products. What Oracle really desires is still
> unstated, but their actions are speaking pretty loudly.
The easiest way to make profit out of solaris now, is to only sell bigger
servers to few customers.
The only way to make profit out of solaris for a longer time is to find new
customers and this will only happen if we can make sure that solaris is on
the desktop of at least the developers.
Sun was very profitable and the fastest growing computer company as long as
SunOS was dominating on the developers desktop.
Oracle may be able to create short term benefit from decoupling from the
community and from restruturing internal development and business concepts.
A long term improvement will only happen with the community.
Take google and type "oracle linux" in the search field. You will get predefined
search strings for several items but none for "oracle linux community". This is
the real problem. Oracle has a Linux distro and Oracle is proud to tell people
that it is free even for redistribution, but there is no community. Now we come
and have a community but Oracle is overtaxed with this. Oracle needs to learn
and to talk with us.
Jörg
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