First of all, let me be quite frank on this: I want OpenSolaris to stick around for many years. It's a _VERY_ good OS, and there are quite a lot of ideas in there that the world NEEDS, such as dtrace and zfs.
Let me first point a finger at those who wants to be identified with
BSD, yet spreads fud about OpenSolaris: You may have missed your foot
with that shot, but you managed to hit your knee instead. The various
BSD OS'es are among the opensource projects that benefit from
OpenSolaris. Their license is compatible with the CDDL (something the
GNUs hate), and thus we have ZFS and DTrace ported to FreeBSD (albeit an
older version but slowly catching up). You're hurting OpenSolaris with
your FUD, and by doing this you're hurting the BSDs as well. If, as you
claim, you want the BSDs to gain, you're not doing it right.
For the rest, I can only see one reason for you to want OpenSolaris
dead. Is this because your favorite OS people feel threatened?
OpenSolaris has a potential Linux never really had: It can, with some
help from ISVs and "the crowd" make a dent in Redmond's monopoly that
neither Linux distros nor OSX could. Linux lacks integration, and isn't
end-user-friendly. OSX has grown to only be cupertino-friendly under a
smokescreen of glossyness. OpenSolaris runs perfectly (atleast almost)
on two architectures, and from a myriad of hardware manufacturers,
something OSX never will (face it: Apple does its best to make sure
hackintoshes fails to boot. Why anybody would want to run an OS the
maker does its best to STOP YOU FROM RUNNING is beyond me.)
Now, finally, a message to the spindoctors at Oracle Marketing dept: All
of this FUD is actually _YOUR_FAULT._ Your total lack of communications
_MAY_ work with some of the fortune-500 companies, but it fails
miserably with everyone else. If you want people to downright distrust
your company (and that includes your "precious" database!), just keep
doing what you're doing, and you'll succeed. But don't come back crying,
when this hurts your bottomline because companies won't even TALK to
your sales-people. I'm sure someone at Sun can provide you with a copy
of The Cluetrain Manifesto (I hear they're quite familiar with it in the
old Sun organization). The people you're directly hurting with your lack
of communications, are the very people you will depend on to sell your
services to the next generation of companies. These people have long
memories, and has a tendency to have grudges. Just a fair warning.
So, for the rest of us: Let's stop the FUD, ok? Oracle Marketing is
quite capable of hurting the project themselves (if that is their
intention), they don't need any help from us, and if their intention is
NOT killing it, we're killing it "for them" with the current trends.
Apologies for any misspellings and wrong grammar, English is not my
first language.
//Svein
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