On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:04:43PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > It isn't just a debug aid. Similar tools and libraries dependent upon > those tools began shipping from Legato in 1994 because of lack of > support within Solaris. As far as I know, they still ship, although they > probably use sgen when available. > > This Legato thing isn't just a random user package. This is a major > backup package that Sun used to OEM. It still generated 500$M/yr revenue > for EMC. > > Repeated discussions with Sun over the years pointing out both Legato's > discomfort (*and* Sun's discomfort- at one point they were even > maintaining the tools I believe) over using raw access in this way never > really went anywhere. > > So please don't tell me I'm exaggerating. I know precisely whereof I speak.
I thought you were exagerating about RBAC, or ARC process in general, not about how long it took to get here for completely unrelated reasons. I seriously doubt that the ARC had anything to do with why it took years for a proposal to integrate sg3 to come along. The truth is it's taken years for lots of very obvious integrations to happen, and only now are we getting around to it, but the ARC had nothing to do with why it took so long for us to get serious about integrating FOSS into Solaris. The ARC may have been seen as an impediment, but to be fair the SDF processes were tailored to a different business model, and the SDF has had to be modified as we've modified our business model.
