Gary Bainbridge wrote:
Seriously, how long (how many years) and how much money is it going to take to make OpenSolaris a replacement for Solaris 10? Is Oracle going to spend that much money?
For some applications, it already is, Open Storage anyone?
To make a desktop OS work as a data center OS is not remotely the best
engineering practice. Could you run Solaris 8 on a desktop? Sure. But why?
It wasn't practical. Could you use Windows 95 as a server? Probably many did.
But why? That wasn't its intended use.
Um, how much profit did microsoft make last quarter?
Now the OS is going to be retrofitted to make it an enterprise server? With
Solaris you can choose what you want to install. Not so with OpenSolaris. You
get what you're told.
I think you are missing the fact that the desktop stuff is just a shell
over the bits that make an enterprise OS. If you compare the *new*
features (latest and greatest Gnome is not a new feature) in OpenSolaris
they are heavily server focused.
--
Ian.
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