> > > Was Solaris a successful product before Sun open > > sourced everything? How much has the enterprise > > market changed since then? > > > > Wrong question: the right question would be how > many > > users would Solaris use > > now, if it had not been opensourced. > > Can we change it to how many PAYING CUSTOMERS would > use Solaris now if it had not been opensourced? I > think that is a legitimate question, but probably not > one that anyone can actually answer. Estimates? > Anyone? >
These OSS/adoption rate/commercially success question are becoming more and more rhetorical.. but lead to nowhere, reality is Sun is sold, opensolaris distribution is no more. > Users like me do not contribute to Oracle's bottom > line, and source code had nothing to do with my > decision to use Solaris. hmm. I don't see there is any way actually, you (or me or anyone on a "freeloader" scale) can contribute to Oracle monetary wise, even if willing to. I think it's fair if one uses software for absolutely no cost has no place to request for something, but with prior Sun and now Oracle, individual is just below their radar. One can pay for patches and RTU for your Windows and MacOSX, but reality is there isn't a chance one can do the same with Sun/Oracle.. > > eric -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
