It's a kind gesture to say it'll continue to exist and all, but without commercial support from the manufacturer, it's relegated to hobbyist curiosity status for us. If I even mentioned using an unsupported operating system to the higherups here, it'd be considered absurd. I like free stuff to fool around with in my copious spare time as much as the next guy, don't get me wrong, but that's not the issue. For my company, no support contract equals 'Death of OpenSolaris.'
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Michael Schuster > <michael.schus...@sun.com> wrote: >> perhaps this helps: >> >> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Oracle-Explains-Unclear-Message-About-OpenSolaris-444787/ > > Not really. It doesn't explain that the page in question was an > explanation of how the > OpenSolaris support model has worked for the past 18 months. The fact > that people > interpreted an unchanged 18-month old support policy (defined well > before the acquisition > was even mooted) as the death of the OpenSolaris project shows how > crazy the world > can get. > > I notice that the support page seems to have changed, though. In that > it now says the > GA period is until the next release, rather than the originally > defined arbitrary > 6-month timer. (You can still see the 6-month timer in the support > periods for 2008.05 > and 2008.11, though - notice that both of those left the GA phase > before the next > release happened.) > > Whether Oracle make changes in the future remains to be seen. I would expect > them to (you can't turn around a loss-making acquisition into a > profitable subsidiary > without making changes). > > In terms of OpenSolaris, the word is that a position statement is due shortly. > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
