On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Alexander Eremin <ere...@milax.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:28 +0300, Martin Bochnig wrote: >> Hello. What? You prefer the head_into_the_sand-approach??? >> >> If +1 in that manner, >> then the same as response: >> >> >> >> Do you get it or don´t you???? >> Oracle´s DB is pretty much a monopoly. *There* they can do whatever >> they want, including not doing it, deferring it by 10 years or cooking >> honey. >> >> I shall calm down? Who is using uppercase letters here? >> Who is shouting?? >> >> OpenSolaris is an operating system platform. Even more so, as SPARC is >> a hardware platform that 99% depends on (Open)Solaris. >> This doesn´t even have much to do with OSS, community interaction, >> culture or anything. >> It has to do with how deciders decide. They wont invest hundreds of >> thousands of $$$, if not millions, into a platform they know nothing >> about. And I can understand that. Oracle is too naive for this little >> calculation? I doubt this. >> >> >> If you SHOUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS, that others shall ^calm down^ (this >> reminds me of an old joke, or was it self-irony??), Oracle is losing >> the UNIX market through their >> No-Statement__No-Roadmap__No-Assurance__No-Platform-Security policies. >> That is a fact. They made it happen. >> >> Not I invented that. >> Bit it is how it happens to be. >> > I just think we should wait, too early to draw any conclusions > -- > ::alhazred >
People including myself were discussing this on OGB discuss last week, and the week before, and .... People did and do wait. But Oracle´s deciders (top-rank) behave like deaf-mutes. This is what is most frustrating of all. It appears, they accept no advice at all. %mab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
