Given Sun's ability to look good to investors and Wall St. (other words, making $$) I doubt there will be lots of similar attempt in the future. Now Sun is (almost) a walking dead in the middle of desert with vulture hovering overhead.
And the latest report from The Reg. does not make one feeling any better about the future of opensolaris/solaris development, I fail to think of a "community" project can prosper purely on its own without financial support from companies, Apache, maybe. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/sun_bonuses_ibm/ The last few paragraphs: <code> "If Sun is playing hardball with IBM in the hopes of getting a better price and firm guarantees, then it'll be a long time waiting. There's no reason for IBM to buy any of the software projects Sun's attached so much importance to. And that will mean staff cuts. Even Sun knows the reality - it's just in denial about the scale. In recent months Sun has had to cut staff involved in marketing and engineering on OpenSolaris and desktop Java as part of planned redundancies." </code> -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
