Alan DuBoff wrote:
Unlike OpenSolaris, the Linux world has a many corporations paying for
work on the kernel, drivers and applications.
But Sun has a tremendous amount of engineers working on Solaris, more than any
other single company, IMO.
I don't dispute that, the fact the Solaris can better Linux in many ways is
a strong indicator as to the quality and number of developers at Sun. My
point is not so much that more than one company contributes to core Linux,
but many companies pay staff to work on Linux derived code, whether it be
embedded or PC based.
I don't think the community involvement in OpenSolaris
will grow until we have more companies willing to pay for work on the
project.
I don't believe that. And Sun is paying for a lot of engineers to work on it.
Again, I think its all of the peripheral work that makes the difference.
The big question is how can we make this happen? Is there a demand from
corporate users willing to pay for drivers and functionality? If there
is, can Sun (who I assume know who wants what) through OpenSolaris
connect them with developers in the community able to do the work?
One of the more likely candidates for such a project might be 3Ware. Anyone
interested in working on 3Ware drivers?
I would.
Ian.
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