On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Henrik Johansen <hen...@scannet.dk> wrote: > On 02/22/10 03:35 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >> >> On 02/22/10 09:19, Henrik Johansen wrote: >>> >>> On 02/22/10 02:33 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >>>> >>>> On 02/22/10 06:12, Henrik Johansen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well - once thing that makes me feel a bit uncomfortable is the fact >>>>> that you no longer can buy OpenSolaris Support subscriptions. >>>>> >>>>> Almost every trace of it has vanished from the Sun/Oracle website and a >>>>> quick call to our local Sun office confirmed that they apparently no >>>>> longer sell them. >>>> >>>> I was actually very startled to see that since we're using it in >>>> production here. After digging through the web for hours, I found that >>>> OpenSolaris support is now included in Solaris support. This is a win >>>> for us because we never know if a particular box, especially a dev box, >>>> is going to remain Solaris or OpenSolaris for the duration of a support >>>> purchase and now we're free to mix and mingle. If you refer to the >>>> Solaris support web page (png attached if the mailing list allows), >>>> you'll see that OpenSolaris is now officially part of the deal and is no >>>> longer being treated as a second class support offering. >>> >>> That would be *very* nice indeed. I have checked the URL in your >>> screenshot but I am getting a different result (png attached). >>> >>> Ohwell - I'll just have to wait and see. >> >> Confirmed your finding Henrik. This is a showstopper for us as the >> higherups are already quite leery of Sun/Oracle and the future of >> Solaris. I'm calling Oracle to see if I can get some answers. The SUSE >> folks recently took a big chunk of our UNIX business here and >> OpenSolaris was my main tool in battling that. For us, the loss of >> OpenSolaris and its support likely indicates the end of Solaris >> altogether. > > Well - I too am reluctant to put more OpenSolaris boxes into production > until this matter has been resolved. > > >Look at http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_opensolaris.html > >This page is stating that OpenSolaris is supported for up to 5 years. > >- -- >Al Slater
Since we're OT here, I've started a new thread in Indiana-Discuss called OpenSolaris EOSL: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2010-February/017593.html FWIW, I suspect that this situation does not warrant a "Wait and See" response. We're being badly mistreated here and it's probably too late to do anything about it. Probably the only chance to quell this poor stewardship is to get big and loud right away. Then we can see if Oracle actually respects the notion of community. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
