UNIX admin wrote:
> 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.
Banks should continue to use Solaris 10 *for now* for their database servers
and mission critical systems - OpenSolaris releases, like Solaris Express
releases before it, are previews of the next enterprise release of Solaris -
they're works in progress, good enough for many tasks, but not ready for
deployment to scenarios where you want to run the same OS for years without
upgrading to new releases. There's a reason it doesn't say "Solaris 11" on
the CD labels yet.
You're getting to see the process from the slaughterhouse through the kitchen,
instead of just getting the steak delivered on a plate when it's fully cooked
like you did before - it's going to be messy, but hopefully we'll end up with
a better product in the end.
[BTW, like everything else you see on this mailing list, from everyone else
involved, this is *me* speaking, one person, not the voice of the company.
If you want an official Sun statement, contact the press office for a finely
tuned press release in which all the content is scrutinized and sanitized.]
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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