On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:26:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: > >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common > >> > denominator that comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always > >> > useless for real work. > >> > >> A little turn towards OT: > >> so what are using your opensolaris machines for? > >> The advantages of zfs? > > > > I had Solaris, not OpenSolaris. I've been steadily reducing my > > Solaris machines (mostly because of the horrendous cost) and not > > many are left. Other teams here still have quite a few, mostly for > > proprietary ISP monitoring stuff, Oracle, VoIP billing systems - > > that kind of thing. > > No interest in opensolaris then? The `ZFS' file system alone makes it > worth looking at... its a working system very similar to what linux > community is trying with btrfs
Sadly, using opensolaris would require a massive change in how we do things, and it's just not worth it for us. ZFS is great, but it's not something we'd use. Rather, it's not something we have a pressing need for and the problems it solves are not problems we have. > > I guess you know that Oracle bought Sun. Some on the opensolaris > lists have been pretty concerned about the fate of opensolaris. > > In the last few days some Oracle heavies have put it on line that > Oracle plans to put more devel money into Opensolaris than Sun had > been so many in that community are relieved. > > If you're interested, look for: > > Subject: Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source > > On news.gmane.org under: > gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.general > > The only url have to hand is below but there were several others > cited a fair bit more info in thead as well: > > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3867776/Oracle+Says+OpenS > olaris+Will+Stay+Open+Source.htm -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
