BTW all recent Solaris issues. Will try to share some of my observations. Biggest problem of the Solaris under Oracle control is on area which one one spotted up to now. Current way of providing Solaris a a product completely cuts off any education effort to learn anything about Solaris. This not started when Oracle took control of the Solaris but waaay earlier when Sun decided completely retreat from edu customers and they stopped offering even 90% (or sometimes more) discounts for software. In last 10 years this problem grew even more as there is no almost any young admins knowing anything about Solaris. Students simple cannot afford buy personal Solaris license on non-Oracle HW!!!
I'm using Solaris more than decade and I remember when Oracle made decision about stop sponsoring monthly London Solaris SIG meetings asking to pay more than thousands pound a year for membership. Last year I've changed my job and now I'm spending less and less time with fully updated Solaris. There is no any Oracle offer for professionals like me which are able to use Solaris on own hardware but as they are not have constant income out of provide services on top of the Solaris to pay full licence. This is second huge class of cuts which is causing that companies are less likely able to agree on use Solaris. Even if Solaris technologically is really superior on some areas compare to Linux from point of view of companies investing money in support ii is more and more risky into Solaris engenders. *All because Oracle is slaughtering this community* or is treating them as fits wheel in the car or unwanted dogs!!! Only this completely undercuts slowly as biology is knocking out slowly but staidly) from this planet some well skilled Solaris admins. Only hope is that Solaris in form of OpenSolaris derivatives will survive and will grew its admins base to some enough critical mass. First some people must start writing more drivers for new/coming to the market hardware. Probably next step which can give new hope will be porting Solaris to AARH64 as more and more such hardware now is able to control 16GB or more RAM. IMO Oracle can spend only a little money to make OpenSolaris stronger as *edu platform* which make Oracle Solaris future more solid. On this are even Sun was crappy and Oracle sucks even more now :( In return they can and should give back some parts of the they work on some new parts to keep distance between Oracle Solaris and OpenSolaris as short as it is only possible. It should be as well kind of agreement between OpenSolaris and Oracle about incorporating some parts of the OpenSolaris development into Solaris. In other words transmissions of some goods/resources or written code should be in both directions. IMO offering to Oracle lx containers and sign of good will to incorporate into Oracle Solaris could help Oracle as they could be able make they customers be more happy about use Solaris and Linux together. Some people at least should start consider such possibility .. even if only Oracle will make possible to install OpenSolaris lx support on top of regular Oracle Solaris as non supported feature. Without such cooperation IMO Oracle Solaris will be dead way ahead already "guaranteed" 2034. kloczek -- Tomasz Kłoczko | LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/FXPWxH _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss