On 5/21/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
People are changing, and newcomers are more willing to use opensolaris/sx/nevada as it is, but this doesn't say anything for the large institutions, corporate 500s, and/or government affiliates that use Solaris as it's been known. These are the customers I see continuing to use Sun's Solaris.
Absolutely. Indiana is entirely additive. There's still a Solaris in the new world, and it looks a lot like Solaris does today, is targeted at the same markets Solaris is targeted at today, etc. Now, I'm pretty strongly of the opinion that we want one Solaris in the long run--i.e., we don't want to bifurcate into a Solaris for the top-down enterprise and an OpenSolaris for the bottom-up deployers, community, developers, etc. So, if it's successful, Indiana will ultimately impact the Solaris roadmap as well. But for the foreseeable future, there's always Solaris 10 for those folks who want to ignore what we're doing entirely.
While many know and see things that need to be changed, or what some call "linux-like", much of that is smaller problems. I would much rather have the world's smaller problems on the plate than trying to tackle implementing some of the larger ones...like a 128-bit filesystem, for instance.
Yes!
I see customers that must have support, or need assistance when they have problems (i.e., the world doesn't all know Linux in all cases either), to pony up and purchase RHES.
Ok, but how does the (not so) hypothetical startup I talked about in the other message get from Ubuntu to RHEL so they can pony up? -ian -- Ian Murdock 650-331-9324 http://ianmurdock.com/ "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
