[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

John Levon john.levon at sun.com
Wed May 7 07:32:40 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:21:14PM +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:

> > That's a support contract from Sun and has nothing to do with the
> > technical content of OpenSolaris.
> 
> Long-term support is an integral part of what Solaris is, and Sun is
> saying it loud enough to the world in its marketing pitch.
> 
> So when it comes to OpenSolaris, it's suddenly irrelevant, and I
> shouldn't take it into account? Allow me to disagree there.

I didn't say it was irrelevant. I said it had nohing to do with the
technology. It sounds like something you should take up with your Sun
support contact.

> And the inability to upgrade seemed to me to be of a more technical
> nature, so why skip that point?

It was conceeded.

regards
john


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