Ken,
This is off-topic for [email protected]. This mailing
list is used by the ARC community to conduct architecture reviews of
specific software projects as they go through the development process.
It looks like you might have meant to send this to
[email protected].
-Seb
On 04/20/10 09:26 AM, Ken Mays wrote:
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
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