On 02/02/2012 12:04 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > I take it that the once-promised/planned kernel source release for > Solaris 11 is officially canceled... > > Frankly, this whole situation reminds me a bit of the situation with > Borland's InterBase DBMS. First, it was released as open source and > then new owners got cold feet and took it closed again. Since that > point, the fork of the last open release (now known as Firebird) has > continued strong, while the closed version has essentially sunk > without a trace. Unless Oracle wises up, I forsee a similar outcome in > Solaris-land.
I'd love for that to be true, but so far, OpenIndiana is really quite far off its intended goals. I'd love to be able to deploy OI in production environments with the peace of mind that comes with commercial support, but so far, that's been pretty lacking (and NexentaStor isn't for me, I need a proper general purpose OS without all the weird storage GUIs and Nexenta's, frankly, somewhat specialized per-storage-volume licensing model). As much as I love Solaris, currently Oracle is the only game in town when it comes to acceptable support and compared to your average RHEL/CentOS, their pricing is just way out through the stratosphere... Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
