2010/4/21 Matthias Pfützner <[email protected]>: > You (Martin Bochnig) wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Edward Martinez <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > it appears the so called writers,reporters from many well respected >> > news sites are actually in a way wishing the demise of opensolaris. >> > almost every article written on opensolaris nowadays are about how it's >> > finished,doomed,etc. I think if this keeps up, it will actually >> > discourage companies,etc from using this fine OS. I wished there was >> > something that could be done to stop this. >> > >> > >> > http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3877526/The-Looming-Demise-of-OpenSolaris.htm >> >> >> >> As Oracle must know this, yet refused to do anything about it, it it >> obvious, that Oracle wants this demise!!! >> This harms its own SPARC-sales, which then must also be wanted! >> >> Ellison's database customers slip slidin' to x86 >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/ioug_oracle_survey/ >> >> >> Well done, Ocacle! > > DOING NOTHING is "well-done"? > > Folks, one, hopefully last time: CALM DOWN! And: Get used to the NEW > COMMUNICATION! > > Oracle is in NO POSITION to BEG. It's the world-leader in business software! > That's a BIG and POWERFUL position to be in! So, WHY the hell should they > ANNOUCE or PUBLISH anything, before the ink is dry? There simply is NO NEED to > do so! > > It's all YOU, who's drawing CONCLUSIONS from NON-communication. So, you will > see, if you've been right or wrong, once the ink dries... > > Matthias > -- > Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | "It's all very cool, but > Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:[email protected] | I wonder, what it really > D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | means." Anon. MIT Student > Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | in Byte's 4/96 Editorial >
Do you get it or don´t you???? Oracle´s DB is pretty much a monopoly. *There* they can do whatever they want, including not doing it, deferring it by 10 years or cooking honey. I shall calm down? Who is using uppercase letters here? Who is shouting?? OpenSolaris is an operating system platform. Even more so, as SPARC is a hardware platform that 99% depends on (Open)Solaris. This doesn´t even have much to do with OSS, community interaction, culture or anything. It has to do with how deciders decide. They wont invest hundreds of thousands of $$$, if not millions, into a platform they know nothing about. And I can understand that. Oracle is too naive for this little calculation? I doubt this. If you SHOUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS, that others shall ^calm down^ (this reminds me of an old joke, or was it self-irony??), Oracle is losing the UNIX market through their No-Statement__No-Roadmap__No-Assurance__No-Platform-Security policies. That is a fact. They made it happen. Not I invented that. Bit it is how it happens to be. %mab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
