As sad as it is to see people leave the Solaris Kernel development team, you have to remember that there are a lot of other engineers in that team. People always leave when there is an acquisition and it's hard to hold onto folks. I was sad with Richard McDougall left Sun for VMware. But Solaris is still around and things are still improving. So while it's sad to see senior folks leave here and there, it just enables those behind the scenes and new guys to step up and do new and interesting stuff. Look at Dan Price, I remember way back in 2002 seeing and hearing about him for the first time when he presented the p-commands in Solaris 9. Look at what he's done since then! So I really don't believe all the FUD that somehow Solaris development will die out or suffer to the point of capitulation because a hand full of the kernel engineers leave. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them return. I've seen plenty of folks that left Sun that have returned to Oracle.
As to the kernel engineers that will work on OpenSolaris/Ilumos, etc.. I'm glad to see they'll continue to contribute. The OpenSolaris community really needs some kernel engineers out in the wild and not in a silo at a big company. I always felt that OpenSolaris was suffering by not having enough contributors familiar with the codebase. Now that's no longer an issue. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Edward Martinez <mindbende...@live.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 1:08:08 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] : - ( >What I find troublesome with > a lot of these open source > projects is that it takes contributions from > commercial companies to keep these > projects moving and somehow the open source community > treats them like dirt. Well...with top solaris engineers,like, Bonwick,etc.leaving Oacle. I think it will probably force Oracle to reopensource solaris kernel, because i think in this time in age, it will be hard for oracle to find engineers, who are able to write and maintain complex kernel code like these devs who left were putting out.. quote from gadamore: " On the other hand, I think illumos may be the place where Solaris innovation happens, more so than at Oracle, even sooner than I previously expected. " http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/09/another-zfs-departure.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
