On 14 Aug 2010, at 20:30, Erast wrote: > > There are at least 2 companies that I know who are committed to contribute > money and equipment on periodic basis. Stay tuned.. much more is coming to > Illumos.
Indeed, Illumos has a bright future ahead of it. To quote Garrett's blog post: "Illumos has garnered the support of some of the top minds in the industry; already the list of names of Solaris contributors and potential contributors that have already publicly committed to supporting this project is extensive. Many of the names are famous, people like Bryan Cantrill. Oracle's actions and inaction have actually made this possible. I can also say, the list goes even further -- considerably so. I have had private conversations with quite a few other people who have quietly committed to involvement. Some of the names are very surprising, and I hope that they will soon be in a position to announce their involvement for themselves. These are people that are big name contributors; folks who have made very large numbers of code commits to Solaris -- some of the deepest and most "challenging" parts of Solaris, too. The upshot of this is that the future for Illumos is surprisingly bright. Rather than a dependency on the good will of one corporate sponsor with dubious intentions, the project will have the diverse backing of some of the most well-known innovators (and their employers) from the OpenSolaris -- nay, Open Source -- community." http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/08/hand-may-be-forced.html I can confirm that EveryCity in the UK are more than happy to commit hardware and bandwidth to the Illumos project. I'm sure Illumos will have no problem getting resources from other organisations too.
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