I may be incorrect, but when I watched the webcast and they had the graphics displayed showing the hardware line and Oracle VM working with Logical Domains, etc., they had the x86 hardware. I'll have to look again, but they had three blocks for operating systems on top which were Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
I know in another slide they listed OpenSolaris and had the website, but I honestly don't believe they will continue development of OpenSolaris which has mostly been developed on x86. For quite some time there wasn't a Sparc install and then you needed AI. Now a text installer for Sparc has been released, but it is late. Oracle isn't going to put tens or hundreds of millions into OpenSolaris when they announed they are going to spend more on Solaris development than Sun. And there are many things in OpenSolaris which are not enterprise ready and it would cost a lot of money and time to get OpenSolaris to the point of being ready for enterprise data centers. AI. Caiman. Zones. Network Auto Magic (default). Especially when Oracle spends millions on Linux, why spend more money for another x86 OS when Solaris isn't used much on x86? There are a lot of good innovations in OpenSolaris which can be used in the next Solaris release, but I just don't see OpenSolaris being able to survive. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
