Hello, On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > 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.
Solaris 10 Update 9 will indeed contain some new features including a refresh of ZFS, but it will not replace the OpenSolaris kernel in Fishworks, backporting both the CIFS server and COMSTAR is far to much work. I think Solaris 10 9/10 will be released at OpenWorld together with a preview of "Solaris Next", "Solaris 11" or which name it will get. Solaris 10 is too old to be doing major development work in, it is time to release a major version soon, some things cant be done without a new major release. This would look good for Oracle and their commitment to Solaris (not OpenSolaris), that they have a new major Solaris release when Sun keep developing it for year after year (I'm not saying that was bad, but Oracle may put it like that, look at what Larry said about Rock). What happens with OpenSolaris as a distribution is unclear, they should have released the second respin on 134 without support at least in my opinion, not they just get bad will from the community. http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2010/06/solaris-next-not-opensolaris.html http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2010/03/solaris-10-910-and-second-zfs-refresh.html Henrik http://sparcv9.blogspot.com
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