Hi Stefan,
<disclaimer>I'm an Oracle employee, everything I say here is my personal opinion though, I'm not speaking for my company.</disclaimer>
is there any channel you don't monitor these days? When do you actually sleep? :-)
I have a degree from Sun in high volume email scanning :).
Well, at least with Xvm/Xen, that could be difficult facing the fact that Oracle has dropped that in favor of OVM, no? And xVM might be only programmatic for what most people fear: decisions that are purely led by economical aspects and not by technological concerns. What comes next? Restrict the number of cores or amount of addressable memory on the community edition?
Oracle VM is not a bad product. But I agree it could be improved by adding more Solaris guts to it.
Well, you have to admit that Oracle's licensing scheme in other parts of the empire tends to be somewhat restrictive wrt. to under what circumstances you're eligible to use the software. That's what I like about OSOL - no risk whatsoever to run into underlicensing situations etc.. Can you guarantee that for SX(I)CE?
One of the lesser known features of Oracle VM is that it's free: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/index.html As for Solaris 10 (and presumably its successor): - Yes, you need a license and a support contract to run it in production. - No, you don't need to pay for it if you're doing an evaluation or development. It is more restrictive than the OpenSolaris binary distribution used to be, but it IMHO is permissive enough in a fair way for everybody who derives any value from Solaris as a technology: - As a developer, you get to try out, learn and develop cool stuff. - As a business, you get to profit from its advanced features, provided you share some of your profits with the people that created Solaris in the first place. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz, Sales Consultant, Oracle Hardware Presales Germany Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91 | Mobile: +49 172 834 90 30 Blog: http://constantin.glez.de/ | Twitter: zalez ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
