Given that Linux is incompatible with Solaris in many ways,
yet ISVs and customers happily use both, is portability
across both platforms really a key issue?
In the same light, Posix/SUS/XPG/... all seem to talk to
compatibility across alternate branded platforms, yet I
don't believe that Linux claims to be one of them. Is
this whole standards branding thing more of a Solaris
compatibility issue, distracting us from the assertion
that some customers no longer care and would rather have
"just like Linux", whatever that means :-) ?
i know that one of the things that brought me to solaris was it's
commitment to stability and standard compliance and i know i'm not the
only one. without that stability projects like blastwave would have
been impossible.
Both Linux and Solaris have features to die for; conversely,
both have features I'd rather die before I'd use them :-)
Is there a best-of-both world that we could/should strive
for? Or is "being different" (from either camp) a kiss of
death?
What would be the practical downside of doing a Major
release of ON/Solaris/OpenSolaris? Especially if, with
Zones and Xen and ... customers could have both the
existing Solaris2.10 and the new Solaris 3.0?
and what would the new solaris 3.0 have? even if you change major
versions you would be bound by the promises of stability of the new
version, linux changes way to often, will you be willing to follow
their path?
-John
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