We are not sure Open Solaris customers are necessarily Oracle's customers.
Oracle wants Solaris to push its databases. OpenSolaris community wants an alternative to Linux and FreeBSD. Oracle becomes a client of the OpenSolaris community, just like IBM and Redhat became clients of the Linux community.
Joerg Schilling wrote:
When we talked about how OpenSolaris should be driven in September 2004, it was obvious that Sun works on the issues that get money from paying costomers while the community works on the aditional wishes of the community. The community needs to be able to prevent moves into a direction that is aparently driven by customers but against the will of the majority of the users and the community needs to be able to put back their developments results. This way Solaris stays competitive with other OS. Jörg
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