AFAIK, that's pretty much what they said they'd do (as contrasted with coming out with one more OpenSolaris release, which they had said they'd do but didn't). So for those who want to run Solaris on non-Oracle x86 hardware on the HCL in a business setting, it's (still) possible.
The lack of a low-end support option (no human time spent to respond to specific problems, just online access to info and updates), affordable (at least for small systems) by home users or freeware developers, is still disappointing though. Any freeware developer, and potentially home users and students too eventually, increase the value of the ecosystem, whether by writing or porting software that runs on the platform, or by some of them becoming future big-ticket customers. That's practically free money, too; no cost aside from bandwidth and setting up the account to provide low-end software support. And it's money that wouldn't be there without the low-end option. Heck, it's even free advertising! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
