[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Dan Roberts]

 >>>>> 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.

Going back to the original questions...

Solaris 10 will continue to have Updates to: support the latest 
hardware, continue to improve stability, and to port a few key features 
developed in the OpenSolaris Community back to Solaris 10 (ZFS boot, key 
networking advancements, etc.).  Sun will also make new products 
available based on OpenSolaris technology designed to work with Solaris 
10 like our NAS appliance, or our xVM Server appliance.  And there will 
be a future version of Solaris based on one of the 6 month releases of 
OpenSolaris, which will bring the latest advances from the broad 
OpenSolaris community to Solaris customers.

Also, let me be clear, the different releases of the OpenSolaris OS are 
not the upgrade path for customers of Solaris 10 in the majority of 
cases.  Future versions of Solaris will be that path, particularly for 
anyone that needs long term support (up to 10 years or more).

Though we are certainly aware that some customers will want to move 
certain applications or new systems to OpenSolaris to take advantage of 
the latest innovation as soon as possible.  Which is one of the reasons 
why we are offering full production support right away.

The OpenSolaris 2008.05 release is the upgrade path for customers of 
Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08, as we will no longer produce a 
Solaris Express Developer Edition product moving forward.

Solaris Express Community Edition builds will continue without changes 
for some time.

Dan