[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Laurent Blume wrote:

> I know I've asked for a faster release of some new features, for 
> *desktop*, and there, it's obviously going forward. Not knowing what an 
> OS will look like only one year from now doesn't quite fit with my 
> expectations. OpenSolaris is a mutating thing, evolving very fast, by 
> design. Nothing wrong with that per se, but don't try to convince me 
> it's Solaris. By definition, it doesn't fit with Solaris' image.

Well, rather, don't try to convince yourself that OpenSolaris is 
Solaris. That works both ways, doncha know? :-)

> The complete inability to upgrade from Solaris. How can it be a better 
> Solaris, when it can't even upgrade one? Hopefully it *will* be, one day 
> (and Alan Coopersmith's recent post on the Solaris x86 m/l shows how 
> that may come to be). But right now, it's just something else, a mix of 
> flavours, GNUish, Linuxish, Solarisish, still striving to find its own 
> identity.

But it is what the future Solaris will be built on, so I'm not sure what 
your impilcation is with your comments.

S10 should continue to run fine for you, look at the milage you're touting 
on your 2.5.1 server going out of commission last year. I'd say if you 
could milk your S10 servers for quite a number of years before you realize 
that you've been eclipsed.

* of course my own view, not my employer. I have no insight to what Sun is 
planning, but it is my understanding that future releases of Solaris would 
be based on OpenSolaris, at the core.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group