[indiana-discuss] Could I use OpenSolaris to run ERP?

[James Cornell]

Upgrading twice a year should be a reasonable compromise with many  
benefits.  Solaris 10 U6 isn't going to cover issues such as power  
management, newer gstreamer framework (Needed for some modern  
software), and device drivers, merely a subset of the work that could  
be reasonably backported, but the amount pales in comparison to the  
sheer engineering scope of OpenSolaris of only 2 years work.  ABI and  
API stability still exists, it's desktop applications which are  
somewhat at the mercy of upstream changes (GNOME, glib, gtk+) but not  
command-line applications, and if an application is compiled against  
Sun Studio versus GCC, it generally has a longer period which it can  
run, in many cases Solaris 2.6 applications run on OpenSolaris, just  
as they did on Solaris 10, despite much newer components, and this is  
one of Sun's project goals for all sub-projects in general due to  
customer requirements and support contracts.

James
On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Terence Ng wrote:

> The ERP that I am planning to run is Adempiere.  It is open source  
> derived from Compiere.  I expect that there will be at least 5  
> releases per year.  Therefore...but I don't want to upgrade every  
> year...I don't know!
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