> The source code is also available, so Sun is not > denying you the fixes, > they're just not providing free binaries to everyone. > > Updates are a form of support, and support costs. > I know, I know, that everything costs something... And a community of users is also a very expensive thing... Let's see at other open source operating systems: FreeBSD ports and release branch - updated regularly, updates are free Different Linux distros: Debian - updated regularly, updates are free Ubuntu - updated regularly, updates are free CentOS - updated regularly, updates are free
And Sun decided (may be quite late) to make Solaris an open source OS world... Isn't it good to stick to the best traditions? :) So, on one hand - we have stable (and quite communicable) community , but on other hand - strange corporative policies, which sometimes are quite frightening... Some kind of corporative illness. For example, we don't know what will be with OpenSolaris without independent Sun. We don't have any figures, only abstract Oracle promises. So when I say: "Let's make our new terminal server on base of OpenSolaris, it has a lot of interesting features...", my boss asks : "And do you know, what will be with it in two years? Will someone support it if Sun stops donating this project?" After he asks : "Is it secure? Does it have modern software?" I say: "Yes, but we need to buy support". The reaction is: "Let's try CentOS/Debian/etc, we will have stable, de-facto, standard Unix-like system with a lot of modern software and we shouldn't pay for its support." When I say about zfs and zones, I'm asked to look at LVM (in future to Btrfs) and Vserver... When I try to say that in OpenSolaris these things are more convenient and it is scalable and so, I am asked "Do you recieve money from Sun for making such propaganda?" :) And I begin thinking: "Does OpenSolaris is really so good, or some Linux distro is more adequate and cheap enough decision for our needs?" -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
