You can read many things into words and statements, but if you read carefully how Oracle responds to questions about Solaris and OpenSolaris, you can only wonder what will happen once the dust settles.
"Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did prior to the acquisition, and will continue to contribute technologies to OpenSolaris, as Oracle already does for many other open source projects." Oracle is investing more in Solaris... then mentions they will contribute technologies to OpenSolaris. To me this clearly illustrates that Oracle is going to be developing Solaris independent of OpenSolaris, meaning OpenSolaris isn't just a development project for Solaris. Especially given this: "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said at then end of January that Solaris would become Oracle's enterprise operating system for SPARC-based systems and for clusters." Oracle intends to use Solaris for SPARC and clusters. OpenSolaris wasn't developed for SPARC, but rather x86. This is also indicative that Oracle intends to develop Solaris independently of OpenSolaris and that OpenSolaris isn't a development project for Solaris. '"Oracle will ensure customers running OpenSolaris have an option for support on Oracle Sun Systems where it's required, though given the very little sales here, this will not be something we expect many customers to deploy going forward," Roberts said.' OpenSolaris support will be available, but only on hardware purchased from Oracle, and it seems if they determine it's required. "It's a change we're still getting use to, though hopefully many of the public statements are very clear that Solaris is our now No. 1 enterprise OS and we will increase investment. We won't be able to talk about specific features, but the future is very bright." Again, Solaris is our number 1 enterprise OS. Yes, for SPARC hardware, which is where the investments will be made. OpenSolaris isn't their enterprise OS and isn't for SPARC hardware, so I don't see much investment by Oracle. Personally, I don't see the commitment to OpenSolaris by Oracle. It doesn't make sense for them to invest heavily in developing an enterprise Solaris for SPARC while simultaneously investing substantially in OpenSolaris, which won't offer them any signifcant return on investments. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
