> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Michael Kerpan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Given that Oracle's acquisition of Sun is now all, > for all practical > > purposes, a done deal, does anybody know what's > going to happen to > > OpenSolaris? > > Watch the webcasts, and try to guess the same way the > rest of us have to. > > > Oracle is not exactly known as being friendly to > open > > source software and given that the > SPARC+Solaris+Oracle stack is > > likely to be at the core of Oracle's business > model, I'm worried that > > OpenSolaris is going to go away. > > Depends what you mean by OpenSolaris. Community? > Website? > Sun's distro? Code base? User groups? Brand? > > > This seems especially likely given > > that Oracle PR folks didn't even mention > OpenSolaris when they > > discussed the future of various Sun FOSS projects > earlier today. > > It's worrying, but they did spend a lot of time > talking about Solaris. > Given Sun's executive ability to interchange the > words and inability > to correctly differentiate, I would be surprised if > Oracle suddenly got > the Solaris/OpenSolaris distinction from day one. > > > I've > > never really used it in a serious context, but I > have experimented > > with it and would be quite saddened if Oracle were > to kill it off! > > Given the emphasis on investing in and developing > Solaris, and the fact > that OpenSolaris is the development mechanism for > Solaris, then killing > OpenSolaris seems an unlikely course of action. > > That said, I don't expect business as usual. I would > imagine that Oracle > have a different philosophy and different goals, and > that the shape of > OpenSolaris and the community around it will change > and adapt to fit > that world. So what I want to know is what shape will > the overall > OpenSolaris family take in this new world?
One clue could be that you can no longer buy OpenSolaris Support subscriptions from Sun / Oracle. A quick call to our local Sun / Oracle sales team supports this. This effectively means that we no longer will be putting OpenSolaris in production. > (And no, the OGB aren't privy to any secrets here.) > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - > http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
