On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacob Ritorto wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Over on ZFS-Discuss we've uncovered some disturbing news: >>>> http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_opensolaris.html >>>> >>>> Anyone know why they're randomly killing off OpenSolaris? Seriously? >>>> Should I be looking for a new job now? >>> What do you read in this page that suggests that OpenSolaris is being >>> killed off, or that the support levels have in any way been changed? >>> >>> Such statements of expectations for support level over time apply to all >>> products as a matter of course. >> >> If that's the case, is there also an eosl page for Solaris 10 ? > > There's been web pages for years giving the support lifetime for Solaris > releases - the current one has a very similar URL to the one you gave: > http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_solaris.html
The opensolaris subscription link is completely gone. Additionally, the mention of opensolaris coverage in the normal solaris subscription page was unceremoniously deleted sometime in the last few days (I was looking at it last week because I'm supposed to be renewing my opensolaris contracts next week. I had posted a png copy on zfs-discuss). Plus, opensolaris eosl page gives concrete dates where solaris 10 eosl page says TBD. So perhaps they're killing support of OpenSolaris and not the whole project. This action, in my shop, is equivalent to killing it outright because we can't have an unsupportable product in production. I know of no migration path from OpenSolaris to Solaris at this time. Thus, I'm sorry to say, but my trust in Sun and Oracle has put me in a position where our assets are at risk and we have no way out other than to ditch this operating system and manually migrate to something supported. With that sort of user support experience, do you really think that upper management is going to accept/approve my trust in Sun / Oracle again? And this in light of the fact that Novell just took a big bite out of our UNIX business last quarter with SUSE, have supported it absolutely perfectly thus far and are hungry for more... In a nutshell, if I can't renew my OpenSolaris contract, my superiors are (against my personal quality desires, but not against my better business judgment) going to convert me and my infrastructure to Novell Linux. A sad day indeed. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
