On 07/ 1/10 03:46 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
Except that a 2010.03, and then a 2010.H1 were promised. The later
specifically by Oracle. To be clear, Oracle's new and updated guidance is that
these promises will not be honored?
I don't recall seeing any Oracle promises. I believe they were all
assumptions based on information available. The last promise I remember
seeing is 2010.03 from Sun, not Oracle. I'm getting really disappointed
in not seeing anything. I would like to see the development branch
opened up, I even would be willing to pay a small fee to get the
development branch releases. But nothing is offered at all.
Where do we go from here. There are a few choices mentioned in previous
posts and some speculation on my part:
1) Wait for 2010.H2
This is still speculation, as Oracle hasn't officially stated if and
when it will be released. Maybe the binary development distro will
start then?
2) Start your own binary distro, not a fork, almost the same as Sun provided
I'm not a programmer, this is basically not an option for me, or for
most people for that matter.
3) Move on
For me, I've been using Solaris since v2.1 from an Interactive Unix
upgrade and since purchased Sparc Workstations as well as X86
Workstations. I feel abandoned. I am now started to give this some
thought, but not there yet. I sure others feel the same.
4) Start a new forked community
Basically someone, or group of people and providing option # 2.
Basically this is going to be harder to gain support now, based on all
the disappointment today. It should have been announced 3 months ago
when people were very much enthusiastic.
As other people have stated previously, Oracle needs to announce
something. It's not fair to an online community based around
Opensolaris. How much longer do they think the community can handle?
Do they intend to orphan Opensolaris by neglect?
Paul
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