One could also ask the other way round: Does Oracle
still have enough good
programmers to continue ZFS development the way they
did before?
apparently not, since they're still supposedly hiring more. Maybe they're
thinking: gosh, it's hard to find programmers on the market with previous
Erik, looks like you've already said everything I was thinking of posting and
said it better.
Oracle is being a blinkered dinosaur, trying to hark back to the good old days
when the Unix mainframe was king. It's actually a risky business model, trying
to focus entirely on rich investment banks
I was able to download the latest studio express version today with no
problems. I doubt they're planning to close the program but maybe maintaining
the download facility for a 'special' non-latest version for non-Solaris 10 is
a different matter.
Perhaps a real target for Illumos is to
I dont see that Oracle is killing OpenSolaris
I never said it was
Hence, OpenSolaris code will
not be killed. It is only FUD to say so.
I didn't say so
Ergo, OpenSolaris will not be killed.
I didn't say it would
Again, OpenSolaris will not be killed.
Again, I didn't say it would
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Oracle mentions OpenSolaris now:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opens
olaris/overview/index.html
Not much of a mention - just says please go to OpenSolaris.com on every tab.
Interesting to see that there is a community tab, which also points to
opensolaris.COM
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This
interesting...I guess Oracle is still in the process
integrating SUN.
er at WEBMINK blog, I found a link that leads to an
Oracle site title Oracle's Support for Open Source
and Open Standards and has OpenSolaris as one of
their KEY OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES. along with
Support for Solaris is costly because only small
number of people can
fix it, and make it available to others. OpenSolaris
support just gives
more bang for a buck on every front.
Open VS Closed; Free(dom) VS Proprietary; Independent
and associated VS
Dependent on one company; Active and
The advertised speaker was Greg Lavender, but since he's left for Cisco I guess
they'll have to think again. Maybe they'll just have an empty, silent stage and
let the audience draw their own conclusions...
OK OK I'll leave the dead horse alone now.
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I had a look at the sessions announced for Oracle Open World and got a bit
annoyed at the prominent announcement of Oracle Linux Roadmap: A Penguin
Prospective (S316881). Hmm, seems like Oracle doesn't fell the same need for
secrecy about what's in store for OEL. But, to be fair, I did find
also this one:
What's New and Cool, and the Platform to Take You There (S317591)
Most notably, after describing Oracle Solaris as the platform to take you
there, the abstract ends with:
The session will close with an introduction to the new Image Packaging System
(IPS) and tips for building and
D'oh! I didn't notice the session listing was in multiple pages, and of course
it's after page 1 where the main event is lurking:
Oracle Solaris 10 and Beyond: Lead Engineers Panel (S317641)
Abstract: This session, hosted by the head of Oracle Solaris development and
featuring a panel of core
One of the selling points of Solaris
was that the same kernel runs on everything from a
laptop to a
mainframe
Not sure I get you there.
(a) how is that different from anything else
there are many discussion threads and blogs about how even linux has to be
customised and tuned to run
I'm increasingly getting the feeling that the delay is because Oracle is
working to re-brand OpenSolaris the binary distro as Solaris 11. They are
committed to Solaris and they are apparently committed to contributing to the
OpenSolaris code base (and indeed you can see business as usual in
So with that said, our next release for
OpenSolaris
will be when the next stable version of
OpenSolaris
is released, and the way it looks that will be a
long
time from now.
Probably in November
known as 2010.11
based on ??
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Bart Smaalders
bart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote:
As many of us have stated, the next release of
Solaris will be based on the
work done in OpenSolaris.
But will it still be recognizable as Solaris? Or is
it going to be
just another Linux clone, albeit
I guess it depends on how familiar you are (or willing to become) with
OpenSolaris and how much you need the performance vs how much you'd like to
stay with what you know. Zones should be much lower overhead than guest VMs,
but you'd want all services (web, mail jabber etc.) to be native
I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free
version of Solaris. The one where the community helps
develop future releases of Solaris, and Solaris was
the commercial product that cost money to obtain.
Just went to the website and it says I can have
Solaris 10 free?
It's kind of
I am being critical here but I'm not angry. Just not
really impressed.
several years ago Sun was kind of promoting Open
Solaris as being a viable alternative to MS Windows.
But they didn't really inform people that it really
was not user friendly, plug and play and for the
common person.
I realize that OpenSolaris isn't *entirely* separate
from Solaris, but if Sun intended to have the next
release of Solaris based on OpenSolaris, then
millions will have to be spent to get it to that
point, and many years.
The better option would have been to have the next
release built on
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