[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

[Eric Boutilier]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.Com> wrote:
>
> > Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say
> > 	"runs on OpenSolaris[1]"
> > in the face of multiple "OpenSolaris based" distros?
> >
> > That is, if someone develops an application for "Sun's Nevada release",
> > *should* we expect it to, at a binary compatable level, just run
> > correctly on any other OpenSolaris-based distro?
>
> You cannot :-(

Don't you mean: until Sun re-licenses its libm you cannont?

>
> The reason is that I am only able to work as much on libm as I have
> time between other thasks. Fot this reason, libm cannot be a complete
> Sun libm replacement but only serves the software I did test so far.
>
> This is why testing on/for Schillix is so important as long as Sun
> does not opensource enough bits from Solaris.
>
>
> Jörg
>
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