For those of us who have to worry about making pay rolls, the No. 1 item that's 
always in our mind is that we have enough cash in the bank to make the pay roll.

For Oracle/Ellison, I believe their No. 1 priority right now is to make sure 
that the Sun acquisition shows a sign of, or at least leading to, a positive 
cash flow.  Everything that does not directly deal with profits is not even 
secondary, but detracting--at least at the present time.  Once this sign of 
profitability is hopefully established, we can then reasonably expect Ellison's 
lieutenants to put their minds on the 2010.whatever/if-ever.

In the meantime, I have gone back to Solaris 10--in fact I have been doing that 
even before the recent turmoil.  I don't know if anyone still remembers this, 
but when the Open Solaris project first started a little more than 5 years ago, 
the freely downloadable Solaris 10 was all we got.

The Open Solaris project needs a lot of soul searching--personally I think it 
has become hopelessly stagnant, disappointingly going nowhere, and was wasting 
a lot of my time.  (I wouldn't mind continue to "play" with the OpenSolaris 
distro if I saw it has a chance of success--but no, I have actually totally 
given up & switched back to Solaris proper.)  A little disruption now is maybe 
what the doctor would order.



> Ok, this is not to start a flame war, just to hope
> for news/hints/grapevine, is there any hope to get
> 2010.06? 
> 
> At first I can understand 2010.03 is delayed to
> accommodate showstopper fixes, but with quite a few
> builds after b134 as of now, is it really a point to
> have something like b134a? what are the showstoppers
> exactly?
> 
> Not that I actually wait for 2010.x but I am waiting
> the day /dev to be thawed..
> 
> Ivan.
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