Edward Martinez wrote:
>
> On 11/01/10 01:41, Michael wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 07:07, Edward Martinez<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> On 10/31/10 02:54, Paul Johnston wrote:
>>>> . Each discussion is led by a Solaris engineering or technical expert.
>>>>
>>> Whatever is left, they already lost their top devs,
>> maybe the people who are left aren't the "stars" you've come to
>> revere, but there's tons of top grade engineers left in the Solaris
>> organisation, and you'd do well not to belittle their efforts.
>>
>> Michael
> I'm sure the remaining are top grade engineers, but the
> following are the names of the people that have already left oracle
> and they the ones that invented
> many of solaris 10 and beyond tech: SMF,Dtrace,ZFS,etc
>
> Ian Murdock
> Tim Bray
> Simon Phipps
All great guys, but none of those 3 worked on Solaris engineering. As
far as I know, the only code from any of them in any Solaris release is
the bonnie i/o benchmarking tool from Tim, which was an open source tool
he wrote before he worked at Sun.
> I don't know if the other devs have the skills to invent something
> like: ZFS,dtrace,etc, because i don't know who they are
Because you only pay attention to media coverage, not the mailing lists or
code base.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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