Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? Nope. If Oracle means to "kill" OpenSolaris, what could they actually do? They could fire all the Solaris people and stop all corporate funding, sure but are they going to do that, no.
The dude who wrote that article clearly is a big IBM fan and he even wrote an article about why it would have been better for IBM to get Sun than Oracle. If IBM had gotten Sun you can bet Solaris would be toast; as would Sparc, Star Office, Java as we know it and anything else that was distinctively Sun. With Oracle we will see the continuation of all of these. Will Solaris be important to Oracle? I don't know but it only makes sense that they would try to make money off of it rather then kill it. I am now a Solaris user, or rather an OpenSolaris user. I am finally away from Windows and using an OS that I can get along with (God surely knows how much I could not get along with Linux). Even if Oracle kills Solaris, that will not stop me from using it. The CDDL even says as much. You have Belenix in India, Jaris in Japan, Schillix in Europe, and half a dozen others that are all taking advantage of OpenSolaris technology and building operating systems out of them. Oracle couldn't kill Solaris if they wanted to at this point. Perhaps main development will move out of the US but development will go on. With all the clear advantages that Solaris has over Linux the only way that Oracle could stop Solaris from eventually overtaking Linux and eventually Windows is to GPL it. That would be the only way to kill OpenSolaris. If they GPLed it, then the Linux guys could copy it directly into the Linux kernel (Linux is really just a Solaris copying thing anyway). If that happened, all the development would move to Linux and the new "unified" system. As it is now I like that Linux has their ground and here with Solaris we have our ground. Linux is junk, and I am sorry if that offends people but it is and if something breaks then it could not possible be the developer's fault. It must always be the user's fault. I hate that about Linux. I know that it is a volunteer project but even if you volunteer take the blame if you write bad code. Linux will always be a pre-beta/ beta at best. It will never be ready for my computer because they don't weed out bugs the way they should, not even with Ubuntu. They expect you to have a Ph.D. in computer science to use their OS. That is asking too much of me. Solaris doesn't ask that of me. I install it, it works, I move on with my life. Not so with Linux. With Linux you have to dedicate several hours of your free time everyday to making sure you OS continues to work. That is asking too much of anyone. Solaris works and works great. If Oracle has any sense then they will put all their Linux resources into Solaris and make money with it. Because Linux is always playing catchup and always trying to do the same thing but without violating copyright, it will always be convoluted code. I don't like that. Solaris works, I want Solaris and if Oracle wants money then they should realize that there is a market of people who will pay to get Solaris. We have a winner here. I would gladly pay $200 or $300 to get Solaris 11 when it comes out as long as it has the IPS, all the goodies that are now in SXCE and I get customer support. Is that too much to ask. If they work out a deal, they probably could include the Fluendo codecies and DVD player for just a little more so that we don't have to buy it on the side. If Oracle doesn't see that they could make money with this I sure hope they don't get mad if someone else comes along and takes this exact formula and make millions with it. Linux would be so jealous, they would probably accuse them of some evil or another for making a profit. Is anyone else sick and tired of the constant attacks on Solaris? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
