On Monday 29 August 2005 08:40 am, S Destika wrote: > Thanks James for taking the time to write - it clearly shows you guys are > willing to listen, which is a good thing.
I think your messages touched a few people the wrong way, but luckily there was a small minority that did want to and tried to listen to you. Keep in mind that it's difficult for folks that have been working hard to overcome some of the barriers that we've had with Solaris in the past, and have tried to think outside the box to get resolutions that never seemed possible. So, if some of the folks seem to have jumped on you, I think an apology is in order. In one sense Sun is trying to welcome folks like you to our community, and at the same time when you try to point out to us what it is that you feel is wrong, you get ramsacked with a list of reasons why you're wrong and/or what all it is that we've done. In defense of some of the folks that posted in that light, I can say that it's very easy for me to do the same when I see posts as yours, and even though it's not right to, it's natural for folks that have worked their tails off over the past year to do so, it's a kinda of natural defensive act, IMO. > Sun has made the first mistake with CDDL - they no longer can benefit from > the load of GPL software and the huge movement that it is, but more > importantly they managed to differentiate themselves as the pot from the > ocean. But there is always a hope of building a parallel ocean - let's see > how Sun stands up to that cause. To some extend, you're right. I was one that was trying to push for GPL at one point, and it wasn't because it was better, it was because Sun would have placed themself into a situation where they were on par with most of the other open source software. But there were reasons that didn't happen, for better or worse, and now it's not a choice. > Answer this - What OpenSolaris gives you in addition to what Linux already > has? If you differentiated, then there needs to be a substantial > difference. I like to think that the features in Solaris place it in a class by itself when comparing to Linux. DTrace, Zones (Solaris Containers), Service Managemnet Frameworks, Falut Management Architecture, a new boot architecture to bring it on par with other x86 systems, and soon to be a new 128-bit filesystem that will take Solaris into the future way beyond what ext3 or reiserfs will ever be able to do unless they get a major rewrite, and even that wouldn't insure they could compete with ZFS. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
