I think it's become clear by now that Oracle Solaris is just an irrelevant exoticism to mainstream users as opposed to multibillion dollar enterprises.
I updated to Solaris Express 11 because I wanted to check it out and have an alternate boot environment for emergency purposes, but I am now back to OpenIndiana. I didn't notice any significant improvements in snv_151a over oi_147. Oracle Solaris is pretty much a dead fish as far as the wider computing community goes. What we need to concentrate on is finding new contributors to the OpenIndiana project. On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 19:55 +0200, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: > Well they corrected the 30 days trial "smart move" with a not so different > approach. > > I could make a long list of possible users others than businesses and > coders, but Oracle should work it out on their own. > I don't think their restrictions makes a real benefit for them, at all. With > their hight pricing and lack of alternatives they are painting a line on the > floor dividing who are their customers and who are not... they create the > "you are not wanted here" feeling, and this is never a good thing for > business. > > Just for curiosity, how does Oracle check what kind of use you make of an > operating system? In order to evaluate third party communications or private > information this information should be already public (what means, the > information should not be private at all). Otherwise they don't have the > right to read a single packet of data. I dont think there is a way to > consider any data hosted in an OS as a publicly shared source of > information... and no communication behind a password is public. Testing and > demonstration are not required to be public actions either.. as they could > be handling very sensitive information. How are they tracking the computer's > activity?. Anyway, whatever they are logging, in order to check someone's > laptop they finally need a Judge. > > Did you ever read the licensing guide to the Oracle database? Several pages > of text just in order to learn how to license your database... I think it is > the weirdest paper I ever seen in my entire life (my favorite part is the > example about the lifts). I think someone could make an Antropological study > based on that paper. It reminds me very much of the studies Spanish church > was conducting to their priests during 16th century in order to prove if > they were truly "old catholics" or something else. Oracle's way of > evaluating if you fit in the description of a "named user plus" is truly > deep. > > I think they will need to write at least 15 pages just in order to describe > what "testing" really means. First they have to drop the word it self and > call you "tester plus", maybe then, some boundaries could be defined ;-P _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
