> Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > I know if I were working for Oracle, that would > make total sense to me. As > > a matter of branding, they could even change the > name. Instead of calling > > it "solaris next" they could simply call it "oracle > next." > > "Solaris Next" is a code name, not branding. It's > shorthand for "the next > marketing release of Solaris (i.e. not a Solaris 10 > update), which engineers > need a name to refer to it by, but marketing won't > let us call it Solaris 11 > until marketing & management agree that's the name > they want us to use for it." > It's never been intended to be the name on the > product when it's released. > > Since I've been at Sun, "Solaris Next" has been used > for Solaris 8, 9, and 10 > at various phases. > > Oracle's previous statements have been that they see > the value of the Solaris > brand, which is why the rebranding they've done on > the web pages is simply to > call it "Oracle Solaris."
Ok, but if uname -s ever returns OracleOS, not only will I puke, but it will break a heck of a lot of scripts. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
