This thread is getting a little vitriolic but I agree with UNIX admin's
argument.
I am a very firm supporter of Solaris, even in situations which are
strongly anti Solaris.
I also find that although the Sun OS staff and Opensolaris contributors
are absolutely brilliant technically, they are a little disconnected
from the real world.
Unix admin's statement about Banks and such hit right to the point.
He's right. Period.
I support bringing back SXCE if Sun ever wants Enterprise customers to
take Solaris or Open Solaris seriously.
Warmest Regards
Steven Sim
UNIX admin wrote:
How are they worthless? They all install fine,
since compatibility was kept
with the System V packaging system.
I guess I failed to make my point - you can't engineer an enterprise piece of software, for example for a bank or an insurance agency, or the any Fortune 100 company, then come to the sales presentation and tell them that they must use OpenSolaris.
Banks for instance will laugh you right out of the conference room - they won't touch anything but Solaris 10. So if one wants to earn a living, software MUST run on an enterprise OS - in this case, that enterprise OS is Solaris 10.
That's my dilemma. And I believe I'm not alone, I talk to other ISVs, and they too are feeling the pain, only hiding it: when I ask them about OpenSolaris, they just laugh it off. And in truth, I am compelled to agree with them - the stuff is unstable, and as long as I get answer like "don't use /opt, stuff should go into /usr" from people that don't understand the issues yet make decisions in OpenSolaris, I know I'm in trouble.
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