Maybe this is just for the joy of being contrarian but what is the benefit of OpenSolaris for Oracle. Oracle seems to be interested in the data center- Web applications on Web servers on Solaris on Sun servers sitting in front of Oracle databases on Solaris on Sun servers. They push sparc and x86 machines depending on whether you are going for hi CPU speeds vs multithreads.
The big datacenters aren't going to want to run on OpenSolaris (the Sun NAS appliances would be the exception.) OpenSolaris is not going to be a desktop OS. And I suspect that for the small business (under 100 people) Oracle is OK with loosing that segment of the market to Linux or Windows. Solaris 10 customers pay for support. (And there are times I have been glad to have that support.) I don't know how many OpenSolaris customers have support contacts. I was, for a while, looking forward to Xen VM (which supports paravirtualized machines) being added to Solaris 10. But that doesn't seem to be happening. And since all the x86 servers we buy now support hardware virtualization (even the laptops do these days) VMware now seems to be the way to go. Oracle/Sun has clearly (in my mind) abandoned Samba. ZFS and CIFS should still be of importance to Oracle- but that may not be sufficient to keep Oracle's interest in OpenSolaris alive. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
