On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 13:09 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 05:22 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > If Oracle pulled the plug on OpenSolaris wouldn't it die? > > > > If oracle "pulled the plug" ... what precisely does that mean? They don't > > own it. They can't forbid anyone from using it. But they do contribute a > > lot to it. > > > > So let's rephrase. If oracle stopped contributing to opensolaris, it would > > be a major setback. You could still use the current version, but in the > > future, with limited development effort, the OS would likely fall behind > > pace to keep up with the rest of the world. > > > > But there are a lot of companies using opensolaris and solaris, that have a > > vested interest, some commitment to continuing with the platform ... so ... > > development effort would be nonzero ... and what we're talking about is ... > > in the worst case scenario ... you would have at least a year or three to > > think about making your transition to a different platform. > > Which is sadly where I am now. Hence my initiation of this thread. To > which I note nobody from Oracle has deemed fit for comment. Think I am > being paranoid? To wit: > > "With Sun now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle, the acquisition is > triggering a consolidation process. Part of this process is the phasing > out of the public-facing domain used for the Project Kenai Beta site. > This action is being undertaken to provide the best project hosting > solution for all of our customers into one location. Minimizing the > number of current project hosting sites is a start in this direction. > The consolidation process is underway and we will post notices about the > plans and timeline as they become publicly available. The end-goal is to > ensure we provide even more useful resources for all of the Oracle and > Java developer communities." > > Followed by: > > "Hello fellow Project Administrators, > > It's with a sad heart that we have to announce that the Kenai.com domain > will be shutdown as part of the consolidation of project hosting sites > now that Sun is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle."
Apologies for following up my own post but since I posted this there has been some damage control and clarification via an "Important Update" from Oracle: "Gentlepeople, In an effort to get information out to the Kenai community quickly, while trying to manage the integration of our two companies, I think we did a poor job at communicating our plans for Kenai.com to you. I would like to remedy that now. Our strategy is simple. We don't believe it makes sense to continue investing in multiple hosted development sites that are basically doing the same thing. Our plan is to shut down kenai.com and focus our efforts on java.net as the hosted development community. We are in the process of migrating java.net to the kenai technology. This means that any project currently hosted on kenai.com will be able to continue as you are on java.net. We are still working out the technical details, but the goal is to make this migration as seamless as possible for the current kenai.com projects. So in the meantime I suggest that you stay put on kenai.com and let us work through the details and get back to you later this month. Thanks for your feedback and patience. Ted Farrell Oracle Corporation" which can be found here: <http://blogs.sun.com/projectkenai/entry/the_future_of_kenai_com> I realize not strictly OpenSolaris specific, but in interest in fairness I thought I should follow up. So looks like migrating one way or another to consolidate and I suspect they preferred to leverage the branding afforded by java.net over kenai.com. And now it's beer thirty.... Peace-- -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
