Really I don't think there are many "attacks" on Solaris anyway, just a few vocal drongo's who think people wish to hear their opinions. On the whole I hear positive things especially since Solaris 10...
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:54 PM, david <davidbill...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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