Well,I still think OSOl its way too good as a product/test platform/whatever to be thrown out to the garbage .. I would say that OSOL will be around for quite some time,however maybe not as a production ready OS,like I would like.. But who am I to "demand" anything?I'm just a tiny customer of Oracle...
So my best bet is to wait until the next Oracle conference... Bruno Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Erik Trimble" <erik.trim...@oracle.com> Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 22:35 Subject: [osol-discuss] Oracle Unveils Next Generation Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems To: "John Plocher" <john.ploc...@gmail.com> Cc: <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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