> joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > > "Dmitry G. Kozhinov" <d...@desktopfay.com> 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? > > > > Did Oracle really spend 10000 man years? > > > > If yes, over what period of time? > > The announced date of 2011 will be 6 years after > Solaris 10 FCS in 2005, and > a number of projects were in development before > Solaris 10 FCS shipped, but > integrated after. It also doesn't say all those > people were working at > Sun/Oracle when they spent those hours. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window > ow System >
At one time Sun had over 50,000 employees, considering the lopsided importance of Solaris inside Sun, it is probably an understatement that only over 10,000 man-years of development efforts were spent, cumulatively speaking, on Solaris 11. I know I'll be d***d for saying this, but AFAIC OpenSolaris has been causing irreparable damages to the Solaris name, and I am not surprised at all that the OpenSolaris name is being unceremoniously dumped. However, the most important part of this announcement is that "Solaris 11 will be powering the newly announced Oracle Exadata X2-2 and X2-8 Database Machines". There has been a consensus within the Oracle community regarding whether Chairman Larry is truly committed to Solaris, and the test is, whether Oracle will port Solaris to Exadata. Since Oracle has been totally silent on this subject, many began to have doubts. However, as I mentioned several months ago, I have heard many defense contractors openly talked about getting ready for their new Solaris-based Exadatas (thus it should have been a foregone conclusion that Chairman Larry has long decided to integrate Exadata with Solaris). Exadata has been selling like hot cakes, but until now it only runs Linux. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
