[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:03:18AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
>  > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:40:56PM -0700, Dan Roberts wrote:
>  > >  > 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.
>  > >
>  > >  Does the existence of production support imply that Indiana/OpenSolaris
>  > >  2005.08 is considered stable wrt interfaces and so on?
>  >
>  > I don't see how it necessarily implies so.
>
>  Nor I, hence the question.
>
>
>  >  Remember, SXDE had
>  > commercial support available too, but things in are certainly not
>  > guaranteed to be in Solaris for a long time.
>
>  SXDE had been through ARC, it's different.

ARC is not a magical process. It does not automatically mean something
is "blessed."

So, on the basis of ARC alone, no I don't believe it to be different.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben