Considering Oracle's latest announcement that Osol will be community driven, then it all comes to the community on how it will be developed and released. It reminds me of another CentOS-Rhel scenario, but in the osol case it still has to be determined which parts of Osol will be opened and under which license. May I say we are in a waiting transitional state?...Hope we won't have to wait too much for the fog to clear.
George ________________________________ From: Ken Mays <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, March 21, 2010 7:10:50 PM Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] Free /support, /security repository for 2010.x, wider OpenSolaris usage. Georga said: "It all comes down to how Oracle wants to use Osol. Will it be the development and bug testing platform for future Solaris releases or will it be the mean to take it on against linux world and provide a by far superior OS? Thinking that oracle has developed its own version of rhel, I doubt the second assumption and along with that frequent critical/security updates, but then again I might be wrong." ----------> Ok. I'm going to side-step for a moment to clarify something. See: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/open-source/index.htm Oracle's Enterprise Linux v5.x offering is the alternate OS to their Oracle Solaris 10 offering. They are providing them as 'best fit' solutions rather than competing products. As for support, Oracle's VPs are stating that OpenSolaris as well as the other open-source products are supported with their own support windows. You'll see the updated support info once OpenSolaris 2010.03 is officially released. Journalists have already spread the word that 'Oracle Solaris' will appear by Sept 2010 (i.e. rumor mill). Most of Sun's old commercial products will convert to Oracle products. Most of Sun's legacy open-source products will be migrated to Oracle products. This will take time but until then Oracle is stating that they will support offering where it makes sense. I understand the question on maybe a 'free' support solution which I mentioned is possible - but you also have to think of people using that solution in 'critical' production environments and security concerns. Paid support means someone or some business is at your 'beck and call' if a security patch is needed or something goes haywire. Not so when it comes to that 'freebie' or 'volunteer-based' service support agreements. You have to remember that the 'bi-yearly' OpenSolaris Live CD releases are still 'BETA' products - although a little more tested than the 'bi-weekly' engineering releases. Many companies are using OpenSolaris releases for government, non-profit, and commercial sectors for production purposes - but that is just a line in the sand. Oracle Solaris 'X', based on the OpenSolaris kernel and technologies, is still being baked in the oven at the moment. Once you see Oracle 'eating their own dog food' with Oracle RAC or Oracle DB supercomputer and storage solutions based on OpenSolaris technologies - then the basketball will be in another courtside position. The same with many ISVs and IHVs announcing commercial solutions and drivers certified on an OpenSolaris-based release. ~ Ken Mays "Stop that..." - Alice In Wonderland -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
