Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted image?
No problem for me. But YES for a bunch of students who are trying to get their feet wet with OpenSolaris. There is already some bad-mouthing about how the Developer Edition needs a truckload of RAM to just install. We don't want people to compare Solaris hardware requirements with that of the Vista beast :-(
Most colleges I know have machines that happily run Windows and Linux and have *only* CDROM drives. Netinstall might be feasible in some of these cases, but not all.
Are the engineering benefits got out of abandoning CD-ROMS greater than the loss of a few (?) developers, students and users ?
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