[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Kamal K. Varma]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Kamal K. Varma wrote:
>>>>> And, after Indiana/OpenSolaris ships next month - then what? My 
>>>>> production systems are running Solaris. How will they benefit 
>>>>> from OpenSolaris? What's the roadmap? Will there be patches to 
>>>>> S10? Or some Solaris Next? Solaris 10 is getting old, and I feel 
>>>>> the pressure to upgrade it. To what? I often read comments from
>>>>> Sun engineers advising to go to SXCR or Indiana/OpenSolaris. If
>>>>> I've got to put *my* job on the frontline, I'll got for something
>>>>> more reasonable, like RHEL, thank you.
>>>> Sorry, my friend. You are a little out of my league on the various 
>>>> products and versions and such. :) Smarter people than I would have
>>>> to offer come context here.
>>> Well, I'd say «more knowledgeable» rather than «smarter». But yes, I 
>>> need to hear from them. Because the complete lack of an upgrade plan 
>>> to OpenSolaris, even coming from Solaris, is quite an issue. And of 
>>> course, where is the support? Will I be able to give money to Sun, 
>>> and then call them and get answers?
>> I'll pretend to be more knowledgeable (hard to trump Jim even on that 
>> really):
>>
>> The latest and fifth Solaris 10 update, Solaris 10 5/08, just became 
>> generally available (i.e. media kits started shipping worldwide) on 
>> 4/28/08. It has been available for download 4/15 onwards.
>>
>> Per the Solaris OS life cycle model (sun.com/solaris/lifecycle.xml), 
>> updates to milestone releases (e.g. Solaris 10) happen while it is 
>> generally available. Then, in its Retirement Phase 1, patches are still 
>> made available though no more updates (roll up of patches, enhancements, 
>> new features, etc.) are planned.  People get advance notice and details 
>> of upcoming new milestone releases in multiple ways - the early access 
>> (e.g. beta) programs, newsletters, via their account team, etc.
> 
> But none of that has any relationship to the new OpenSolaris Operating
> System, for which the first release is OpenSolaris 2008.05, and for which
> support details (which will be different than Solaris ones) will be
> announced when it is released in May.
> 

Thanks Alan for the clarification. My comments were indeed only Solaris 
related, and not meant to crossover to OpenSolaris in any way.