> 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.
Actually, I see http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:jt7TPSfRB1gJ:www.eecis.udel.edu/~bmiller/DE-OSUG/Oracle-Sun.pdf+opensolaris+oracle+solaris&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShscq5zgqcDlABTGqk8p3UFpOw-T-72W49g8ffpgpqJum9ey7z07ibM3flHif4kyeSksy6YOz1DI7J9YKHfUF9Y8lQdPu5jF17c_FGLF80Pb-M9F5xGUaCtoGkRB2V3nVzOvH0I&sig=AHIEtbRtHFIHSQSPHdooFANeZLr86kFA7g (not sure if the original is still on a Sun/Oracle site somewhere). That says "Next update 1st half 2010", and also says both "Sun" and "Oracle" on it. And it has an email address of the person that wrote it, which I won't repeat here. It isn't a promise in the sense of a _contract_ if there's no _exchange_ of consideration (that is, you're not paying for anything, so it's not like anyone has done you wrong). But it has set expectations, and since by months we're already in the 2nd half (by days too, now), I _would_ agree that it's reasonable for us to expect an update. (There _has_ been some talk about a few showstopper bugs slowing things down, but given the ban on talking about the timeline of future events without very high authority, that's been too vague for me to guess at the impact. Still, I have seen nothing that calls into question the intent to come out with an update...eventually; if they had decided _not_ to have the update at all, they could have done that and announced it a lot earlier.) It's a matter of being patient with no news right now, which is difficult, and certainly impacts anyone who was making plans based on any of the previously mentioned dates. If it were me, I'd try that email address...but not for a week or two yet (and then very courteously!) because I have reason to believe that there are some folks trying to get answers, and it might be a good idea _not_ to undercut them, or to look like an unruly mob, at least not to the people who haven't already seen the way we carry on here. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
