Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering tools to OpenSolaris due to the Nvidia driver support and migrating from older platforms. For daily production usage, those workstations and servers are the most reliable systems to date - all using a officially tested binary release of OpenSolaris.
I've used OpenSolaris for various open source and commercial software projects migrated and deploying from Solaris 2.5.1-8/9/10 as well as migrating software from CDE to GNOME/KDE/XFCE/Enlightenment. I can admit that those systems are still considered 'rock solid' and stable for what they were designed for and I can say that knowing that those solutions have 'OpenSolaris inside' to borrow that terminology. As for IHVs/ISVs supporting andusing OpenSolaris for software development projects, it gets down to a HCL/HCTS (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/index.jsp) certification type program in which you have a 'somewhat' stable or tested OS release on various hardware/software test results. So, the 'officially tested binary releases' of OpenSolaris would be the first start - currently meaning OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111b). From there, you'd test your software products in this somewhat tested environment and go from there for your own certification testing. Talk to Oracle about partner programs for ISVs. There is also this website: http://www.oracleisv.com Hope that helps, Ken Mays - Atlanta, GA -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
