> I agree with you.
> 
> We were developing a solution based on
> OpenSolaris/ZFS
> GIven the current silence, we are seriously
> evaluating the move to Linux.
> 
> It is impossibile to develop anything relying on
> something that is in the cloud: how to trust (and be
> trusted by customers)?
> 
> I am afraid of this, but it seems obvious: with the
> no clear plan, no clear vision , no trust it means
> OpenSolaris will be a toy operating system nobody
> with rely upon for production purposes...
> 
> Sigh...

With no clear _support_ (AFAIK), I might use it for a bleeding-edge
web site-based operation, as long as I had the resources to do plenty
of testing.  But no way would I use it for a power plant or a bank
(as I might, were I in that position, with Solaris 10, for which support
is not a problem).  (I can think of at least one business that started out
using OpenSolaris, although what they're doing in the absence of support,
I have no idea.)

One might perhaps be excused from suspecting that with OpenSolaris (the
distro), we're basically alpha-testers plus occasional contributors.  More
than guinea pigs, but less than customers (although in as far as we're not
paying money, maybe we _are_ less than customers, at least according to
the perspective of contributing directly to the bottom line of the company
that pays most of the developers :-)
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