You (Edward Ned Harvey) wrote:
> Solaris 11 Express is the closed-source oracle replacement for opensolaris.
> It is free for some purposes. Read the license terms to see if it's
> suitable for you. What it basically boils down to is that it's free for
> development work, but not free for production. This is based on honor
> system. Solaris 11 Express is the most advanced opensolaris derivative,
> meaning, it is already more feature-advanced and more stable than the open
> source alternatives, because it's being developed faster with more resources
> behind it. Use it if you expect to be using Solaris 11 (commercial) in
> production and you want to learn on the environment which is the most
> similar.
Just a small correction. It's NOT closed source, it's still open source, BUT:
The source will only be published AFTER the commercial binary release! So:
It's closed development, but NOT closed source!
> Solaris 10u9 is the current commercial release. I think it's released under
> the same license terms as solaris 11 express. I don't know when solaris 10
> will be replaced by solaris 11, but that is obviously coming. Use it if you
> expect or need a commercially supported system now.
There are life-cylce docs:
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf
And: Larry did state, that Solaris 11 will be out in 2011. I guess, it would
be a safe bet to find a date, with all those 11's in the version number and
this years number...
Matthias
--
Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Frauen müssen schön sein,
Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | weil Männer besser sehen
D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | als denken.
Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | Maria von Welser
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
