[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

[Ian Murdock]

Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:33:08PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote:
>> Mario Goebbels wrote:
>>>>> Maybe because it costs Sun too much money to
>>>> maintain multiple release
>>>>> preview trains? Dunno.
>>>> Then Sun should no do Indiana....
>>> FYI, that no one forgets it: Someone in _marketing_ suggested a SX*E replacement. Let me repeat: Marketing.
>>>
>>> Don't get upset over anything marketing says. It's not gospel. At all.
>> It's true, OpenSolaris (Indiana) will replace Solaris Express Developer
>> Edition after SXDE 1/08.
> 
> Could you explain why please?
> 
> As I understand it, SXDE is supposed to be a preview of Solaris Next and
> we keep getting told by Dave Miner that Indiana is "just an experiment".

Indiana is not an experiment--it is the preview of Solaris Next now.
Since it doesn't make sense to maintain two previews, we are phasing
out SXDE.

-ian
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