On 5/19/06, Guido Schwarzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, isn't there really any hope that Sun will officially support the forthcoming Ubuntu server distribution?
I assume you mean "... will officially support SRSS on ...". "Official support" has a specific meaning at Sun. It doesn't mean that an engineer made it basically work one time in a lab, so here's a tarball. It means we do planned development, documentation, QA on all of the product features, training of the various Support teams, education of the Marketing and Sales teams, and we commit to investigating and fixing bugs and creating, testing and issuing patches for the lifetime of the product. Official support is not cheap, and (because it involves a maintenance commitment) it's not a one-time cost. All of this will happen only if the people who control the money at Sun decide to fund the work, or if existing funding is diverted from some other effort. We have no religious or philosophical objection to supporting Ubuntu or any other distro, it's a business decision. And then actually doing the work has to be fitted in with all of the other work that's supposed to be be happening. This is why it's taking such a ridiculously long time to release SRSS for any 2.6-based distros. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
