It sounds more like Samsung is already a big customer of Joyent and is making a strategic move to secure their access to Joyent's talent and infrastructure. Perhaps even exclusively, as far as licensing permits. I'd be surprised if this has anything to do with mobile beyond reducing Samsung's dependence on cloud providers who otherwise compete with Samsung in the mobile space. If they wanted Illumos on mobile, there are cheaper ways to have done that. Samsung has wide-ranging interests, though, including consumer cloud services and enterprise verticals, so I imagine this has more to do with other operations.
As an aside, by open-sourcing SDC in addition to SmartOS, Joyent at least helped ensure that the community wouldn't lose that or SmartOS in an acquisition. It would be wild to speculate on Joyent's foresight with respect to control over SmartOS and SDC IP, but I'm grateful they opened it up when they did, which is to say, while they could. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote: > That's my initial reaction as well, though it really depends on what > Samsung has in mind for Joyent, and how independent it will be. > > It could be that they're looking at Illumos as an alternative to Android > for their smartphones. If so, > > - their smartphone software is a case of "allmost, but not quite" - I've > been using the Samsung Note for years, and their software has interesting > functionality, but key things tend to be missing, and there are weird bugs > (particularly when it comes to Mac syncing) -- I'd be a bit worried about > both their overall management of software development/deployment/support, > and that a focus on mobile will be at the expense of server-side > applications > > - if they're trying to make a data center play, then this might be a good > thing - depending on how well they play in the open source ecosystem (where > they don't seem to have much of a footprint to date) > > Meanwhile, I think I'm happy that I'm still in the experimental phase with > Illumos distros, and still using Linux for operational servers. > > Miles Fidelman > > On 6/16/16 3:32 PM, Micky wrote: > > I think it'll be a disaster for SmartOS ecosystem. > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Clay Eden <[email protected]> wrote: > >> https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent >> >> Anyone else have a thought? I'm assuming this is going to help the >> ecosystem with resources, and trickle down to Illumos. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Clay Eden >> > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27750020-92655a4d> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
