* Anon Y Mous ([email protected]) wrote: > > It already *has* market share. Think of all the Solaris 10 deployments > > (from which OpenSolaris was initially started from). Not to mention the > > people > > (like Joyent) who are running OpenSolaris *today* in *production*. > > No, this is very much incorrect. Joyent does not run "OpenSolaris > Indiana" in production, they run "Solaris Express" in production. > There is a big difference! Go to the link below for Ben Rockwood's > opinion on OpenSolaris Indiana:
Actually, it isn't incorrect. I'll grant you that it would perhaps be more correct to say "Joyent who are running the OpenSolaris codebase" and not specifically the OpenSolaris 'distribution'. OpenSolaris is derived specifically from the same codebase as the Solaris Express releases (with some additional changes on top which make it the OpenSolaris distribution). OpenSolaris is similar to Solaris Express in many more ways than people like to admit. The differences are so minute compared to the overall, it's astounding. The same core technologies found in Solaris Express are found exactly in OpenSolaris, because the two products are derived from the same code base! Yes, packaging and installation are very different, but that's not the whole sum. ZFS, Zones, Dtrace, NFS, SAMBA/CIFS, TCP/IP, Crossbow, GNOME, the list goes on and on, are all virtually identical in terms of functionality/behaviour between OpenSolaris and Solaris Express. Anyway, this discussion isn't going to be any more productive than any of the countless others that people have started about why they feel OpenSolaris isn't as good as Solaris Express (or rather wasn't now that Solaris Express is no more, thankfully) so this will be the last you'll here from me on it. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
