On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:24, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: >> So perhaps Illumos/OpenIndiana will become the OurDelta or MariaDB >> equivalent of Oracle Solaris and outshine its predecessor. :) > > I am very doubtful about this. Oracle states > (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173478) that > > "Oracle Solaris 11 is scheduled to contain more than 2,700 projects with more > than 400 inventions, and will be the result of more than 20 million person > hours of development and over 60 million hours of testing." > > Can Illumos developers spend 20 million person hours of development?
Given that the development metric quoted there is the cumulative historic investment in the existing code-base, Illumos would probably be just as justified as Oracle in making the same claim. S. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
