> From: [email protected] [mailto:opensolaris- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Maier-Komor > > On 05.07.2010 14:49, me wrote: > > Oh and I hope Oracle does not get too crazy painting Solaris in > Oracle red, it just does not feel the same. My reference being Oracle > > Don't get me wrong, I am not keen on eye candy at all, but that's > really > creepy...
Doesn't anybody have any concerns about "The Possibilities" of solaris/opensolaris moving forward, which is perhaps more interesting or important than the color scheme? Yellow, blue, brown, pink, I don't care. It's a server. Possibility #3 and #4 are the ones I think are the most likely. Oracle is shifting effort from osol, to sol10. They're incorporating bug fixes, security patches, and feature enhancements into sol10, at the expense of delaying the osol release. They're in the business of selling sol10, so they need to make it more current and more marketable. Currently, sol10 has commercial support, and oracle has stated the intent to discontinue commercial support for osol moving forward. However, they do ship osol in some products, like the 7xxx series filers. So they are not able to completely stop providing commercial support for osol at the moment. I think they want to get sol10 updated enough that they can use sol10 in the 7xxx's, and they don't need osol in those machines anymore. After that, osol can be a truly free, unsupported and experimental OS, while sol10 is the exclusive commercial supported OS. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
