Hi Friday 13th August 2010 is really a sad day for Open Source community... :(
Xavier Le 13 août 2010 à 17:40, Alasdair Lumsden a écrit : > Hi All, > > This memo was circulated internally within Oracle (and subsequently > leaked). Basically, the open source development model has now been > axed and OpenSolaris is officially now dead. A very sad day indeed. > > > Solaris Engineering, > > Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path to > Solaris 11, and answering key pending questions on open source, open > development, software and binary licenses, and how developers and > early adopters will be able to use Solaris 11 technology before its > release in 2011. > > As you all know, the term “OpenSolaris” has been used colloquially to > refer to any or all of a collection of source code, a development > model, a web site, a logo, a binary release, a source license, a > community, and many other related things. So it’s taken a while to go > over each issue from an organizational and business perspective, and > align on the correct next step. Therefore, please take the time to > read all of the detail here carefully. We’ll discuss our strategy > first, and then the decisions and changes to our policies and > processes that implement that strategy. > > Solaris Strategy > ———————- > > Solaris is the #1 Enterprise Operating System. We have the leading > share of business applications on Solaris today, including both SPARC > and x64. We have more than twice the application base of AIX and HP-UX > combined. We have a brand that stands for innovation, quality, > security, and trust, built on our 20-year investment in Solaris > operating system engineering. > > From a business perspective, the purpose of our investment in Solaris > engineering is to drive our overall server business, including both > SPARC and x64, and to drive business advantages resulting from > integration of multiple components in the Oracle portfolio. This > includes combining our servers with our storage, our servers with our > switches, Oracle applications with Solaris, and the effectiveness of > the service experience resulting from these combinations. All > together, Solaris drives aggregate business measured in many billions > of dollars, with significant growth potential. > > We are increasing investment in Solaris, including hiring operating > system expertise from throughout the industry, as a sign of our > commitment to these goals. Solaris is not something we outsource to > others, it is not the assembly of someone else’s technology, and it is > not a sustaining-only product. We expect the top operating systems > engineers in the industry, i.e. all of you, to be creating and > delivering innovations that continue to make Solaris unique, > differentiated, and valuable to our customers, and a unique asset of > our business. > > Solaris must stand alone as a best-of-breed technology for Oracle’s > enterprise customers. We want all of them to think “If this has to > work, then it runs on Solaris.” That’s the Solaris brand. That is > where our scalability to more than a few sockets of CPU and gigabytes > of DRAM matters. That is why we reliably deliver millions of IOPS of > storage, networking, and Infiniband. That is why we have unique > properties around file and data management, security and namespace > isolation, fault management, and observability. And we also want our > customers to know that Solaris is and continues to be a source of new > ideas and new technologies– ones that simplify their business and > optimize their applications. That’s what made Solaris 10 the most > innovative operating system release ever. And that is the same focus > that will drive a new set of innovations in Solaris 11. > > For Solaris to stand alone as the best-of-breed operating system in > Oracle’s complete and open portfolio, it must run well on other server > hardware and execute everyone’s applications, while delivering unique > optimizations for our hardware and our applications. That is the > central value proposition of Oracle’s complete, open, and integrated > strategy. And these are complementary and not contradictory goals that > we will achieve through proper design and engineering. > > The growth opportunity for Solaris has never been greater. As one > example, Solaris is used by about 40% of Oracle’s enterprise > customers, which means we have a 60% growth opportunity in our top > customers alone. In absolute numbers, there are 130,000 Oracle > customers in North America alone who don’t use our servers and storage > yet, and a global customer base of 350,000 (the prior Sun base was > ~35,000). That’s a huge opportunity we can go attack as a combined > company that will increase Solaris adoption and the overall Hardware > server revenue. Our success will also increase the amount of effort > ISVs exert optimizing their applications for Solaris. > > We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator > community for Solaris. Delivery of binary releases, delivery of APIs > in source or binary form, delivery of open source code, delivery of > technical documentation, and engineering of upstream contributions to > common industry technologies (such as Apache, Perl, OFED, and many, > many others) will be part of that activity. But we will also make > specific decisions about why and when we do those things, following > two core principles: (1) We can’t do everything. The limiting factor > is our engineering bandwidth measured in people and time. So we have > to ensure our top priority is driving delivery of the #1 Enterprise > Operating System, Solaris 11, to grow our systems business; and (2) We > want the adoption of our technology and intellectual property to > accelerate our overall goals, yet not permit competitors to derive > business advantage (or FUD) from our innovations before we do. > > We are using our investment in core Solaris innovation and engineering > to drive multiple businesses, through multiple product lines. This > already includes our Solaris operating system for Enterprise, and our > ZFS Storage product line, and will soon include other Oracle products. > This strategy is all about creating more value from a set of common > software investments: it makes everything you do more > valuable and used by more people worldwide. It also means you as an > individual engineer or manager have an even greater responsibility to > understand the broader business and technical contexts in which your > engineering is deployed. > > Solaris Decisions > ———————— > > We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly all > Solaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any files > in Solaris to which it already applies, and new source code files that > are created will follow the current policy regarding applying the CDDL > (simply, that usr/src files will have the CDDL, and the very small > minority of files in usr/closed might not have it). Use of other open > licenses in non-ON consolidations (e.g. GPL in the Desktop area) will > also continue. As before, requests to change the license associated > with source code are case-by-case decisions. > > We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source- > licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris > operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will > show up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer > distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating > system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis. > > Anyone who is consuming Solaris code using the CDDL, whether in pieces > or as a part of the OpenSolaris source distribution or a derivative > thereof, would therefore be able to consume any updates we release at > that time, under the terms of the CDDL, LGPL, or whatever license > applies. > > We will have a technology partner program to permit our industry > partners full access to the in-development Solaris source code through > the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). This will include both early > access to code and binaries, as well as contributions to us where that > is appropriate. All such partnerships will be evaluated on a > case-by-case basis, but certainly our core, existing technology > partnerships, such as the one with Intel, are examples of valued > participation. > > We will encourage and listen to any and all license requests for > Solaris technology, either in part or in whole. All such requests will > be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we believe there are > many complementary areas where new partnership opportunities exist to > expand use of our IP. > > We will continue active open development, including upstream > contributions, in specific areas that accelerate our overall Solaris > goals. Examples include our activities around Gnome and X11, IPS > packaging, and our work to optimize ecosystems like Apache, OpenSSL, > and Perl on Solaris. > > We will deliver technical design information, in the form of > documentation, design documents, and source code descriptions, through > our OTN presence for Solaris. We will no longer post advance > technical descriptions of every single ARC case by default, indicating > what technical innovations might be present in future Solaris > releases. We can at any time make a specific decision to post advance > technical information for any project, when it serves a particular > useful need to do so. > > We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11 > Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optional > support plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of this > calendar year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the full > release of Solaris 11 in 2011. > > All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology > will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binary > distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris > binaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We will > determine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users > of prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express. > > We will have a Solaris 11 Platinum Customer Program, including direct > engineering involvement and feedback, for customers using our Solaris > 11 technology. We will be asking all of you to participate in this > endeavor, bringing with us the benefit of previous Sun Platinum > programs, while utilizing the much larger megaphone that is available > to us now as a combined company. > > We look forward to everyone’s continued work on Solaris 11. Our goal > is simply to make it the best and most important release of Solaris > ever. > > -Mike Shapiro, Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Xavier Beaudouin - x...@soprive.net - http://www.soprive.net/ So Privé - Le premier acteur dédié au cloud computing en France GPG Fingerprints : A6B2 D563 F93B A3AF C08A CBAC 6BC6 79EB DCC9 9867 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
