[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Laurent Blume]

Jim Grisanzio a écrit :
> We seem to be in some blogs and on Slashdot recently -- and not 
> necessarily in nice ways.
[snip]

Jim - I find Ted's article rather relevant.

Now, as a long-standing member of the Solaris, then OpenSolaris
community, I'm completely in the dark as to where this community is going.

First, what does OpenSolaris means? It's not what it was just one year
ago. Will it be still the same in one year from now? I doubt it.
Sun managed to kill all the buzz about the other OpenSolaris distros.
Now, everybody outside some developers is waiting for that Indiana thing.
For me, one year ago, «OpenSolaris» was a community, however new. Now,
it's a Sun-controlled product in which we outside Sun have very little
to say.

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.

So, where are we going? Who, in our Community, knows that?

Laurent
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