[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

[Ceri Davies]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:23:00PM -0800, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> [ Removed opensolaris-discuss from the Cc and Bcc'ed advocacy-discuss
>    and opensolaris-discuss.  Folks, can we try to exercise some basic
>    email etiquette here? ]
> 
> >> Sigh.  We have made no statements about compatibility with anything,
> >> either past or future, in the preview releases.  It's an experiment.
> >
> > Sun did make statements about long term compatibility and many Solaris users
> > did stay with Solaris _because_ of these statements.
> 
> What Dave is saying is that no such statements have been made about
> Indiana.  What has been stated is there is an intent to use the Indiana
> distribution as a basis for future releases of Sun supported
> OpenSolaris releases.  The first two "Preview" releases (I actually
> prefer the name prototypes since that's what they are) were experiments
> more than anything.  They contain new technology and some changes to
> existing technology; some of those changes will make it into the next
> "big" release of Solaris, whether it's called Solaris 11 or not.  Some
> of them may not.  In the meantime, there will be a series of six-month
> non-traditional releases aimed at *developers* (and not the
> traditional, enterprise customers) which will contain many of these
> changes.

As a traditional, enterprise customer I would very much like to see
SXCE continued.  Could the decision to discontinue it in favour of
Indiana please be elaborated upon (or, preferably, revoked)?

Thank you,

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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