On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> this discussion is pointless - imo. > > I totally agree. IMHO, we should not care about what happens > to Oracle.
Errrm, we actually should. :-) If you excuse me few ¥¥¥ in current point-less discussion, then since Snorcle is making their closed Solaris in a fashion like "A boot loader to their database" (© one great man, somewhere on IRC), then people will realize that this distribution is not really a generic purpose OS and also is so impotent and limited that is just a steaming pile of garbage without upgrading it to a real Solaris for lots of money. It will take time, of course, but eventually what they (people) will do next? Right, they will start looking for a free *similar* alternatives. Where they will go? Right, they will come right here and download our "Dogs food" (© another great man, somewhere on IRC). But... surprise! we are on Illumos and Illumos is a fork. Fork, which has (and will have more and more) differences than Snorcle's handicraft. Then people will quickly recognize that they are totally OK on PostgreSQL in most cases which is ~97.8% of all world projects (apparently, in Germany folks already throwing away Oracle DB replacing with PgSQL, as far as I know), they will use PostgreSQL and OI or other versions of Illumos-based, I think. *Therefore* we have to care, I think, just type of "care" is different: make *our* distro better and make sure it is not "Dogs food" anymore. :-) Actually, I am happy that Oracle is doing it wrong — things will be better for Illumos and for OI. Not right tomorrow, but with a time — yes. Also I think Illumos will be better Solaris, for sure. Just maybe they have to not bloody fight between each other, but encourage instead, which is not really OI's mission to be a referee there. :-) ^D -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
