> I very very strongly disagree, it is up to each > individual to choose > what risks they want to take. Do they want a newer > release but with > less "official" 7x24 hour support or do they want a > big vendor providing > 7x24 hour support they can shout at ?
I respectfully disagree. Production is a well defined environment, purpose of which is to be stable and provide measured and quantifiable service and results. Part of that is guaranteed support as a vehicle for maintaining or increasing service availability and quality. If we take your statement into account, particularly the support part, then the logical choice would be Solaris 10, as it is the current production release of Solaris. It is quite understandable Sun would like to have Nevada tested out as much as possible so that overall quality can be improved, but production and/or mission critical environments are not the place for such things, simply because it is not possible to provide stable levels of service that characterise the CMM and CMMI models. I'd like to close with the following: do you believe that OpenSolaris / Nevada should be used in production capacity in a hospital? Or a Nuclear facility? Or even a bank? If yes, why? If no, why not? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
