On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:57:44PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:19:14PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: > > > > > (actually did they give OpenSolaris a name check at all when they > > > mentioned DTrace ?) > > > > Nope, not that I can see. Apple's pretty notorious for that kind of > > "oversight". I used to work for them, I know first hand how > > hat-tipping doesn't occur very often. > > > > Before this progresses much further, it's worth noting that all of team > DTrace is at WWDC, has met with Apple engineers previously, and will be > involved in one or more presentations today. So while the marketing > department may not include OpenSolaris in the high level overview, Apple > is not ignoring the roots of DTrace, and will not be hiding this fact > from their developers (not that they could).
We've had a great relationship with Apple at the engineering level -- and indeed, Team DTrace just got back from dinner with the Apple engineers involved with the port. More details here: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc?entry=dtrace_on_mac_os_x As for the OpenSolaris name check: no, Apple didn't mention DTrace's roots and yes, I wished they had -- but DTrace was mentioned practically as an aside anyway (so much so that a developer sitting about two rows ahead of turned to the guy next to him and asked "did they just say they ported DTrace?!"), and I think the team involved with DTrace at Apple would have also liked to see a more prominent and complete description of their work and its origins. So in short (and brace yourself, because I know it will be a shock): mentions by executives in keynotes don't always accurately represent a technology. DynFS, anyone? ;) - Bryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
