On 6/28/2010 12:52 PM, John Plocher wrote:
In Oracle's mind, one is a development work in progress, the other is
a revenue product. Guess which one gets the corporate focus?
-John
Don't make the mistake of thinking that OpenSolaris is going to somehow
be "finished" at some point, and *then* become "product". Sure, it's
the development branch, but it's also where Solaris Next will come from
(i.e. Oracle will fork off a branch of the current OpenSolaris distro
and use that as the basis for Solaris Next, while OpenSolaris will
continue along happily). If I had to guess (and I'm going to, though I
have no specific knowledge of this), I'd say that the OpenSolaris distro
actually gets the lions share of development resources - Solaris 10 is
in maintenance mode, and thus the only work going on for it is bugfixes
and backports from OpenSolaris for a limited set of features.
Let's hope this is just an omission , so far, but on the OS
compatibility list of all these new servers, Opensolaris doesn't
appears...Only Oracle VM, Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux,
Also, as has been stated here before, in most cases, when Oracle says
"Oracle Solaris", that includes the OpenSolaris distro. For instance,
if you buy Oracle Solaris support, it *includes* support for running the
OpenSolaris distro on that machine.
Somehow, I think the Oracle PR folks must have an allergy to the word
"OpenSolaris". <grin>
ObDisclaimer: I work for Oracle, but don't know anything more than what
has been publicly stated. All statements are my own, and do not reflect
any intent or position of Oracle, Inc.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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