Well... although I did congratulate Oracle on the acquisition of Sun... I am worried a bit myself as well. But, keep in mind that, since OpenSolaris is open source, I have no doubt that the project will spin off from Oracle and persist anyway (albeit w/o extensive funding and Oracle sponsored development). But that is just my perception...
Matt Nawrocki OSUG Leader Pittsburgh, PA On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Richard Frost <richard.j.frost at gmail.com>wrote: > After watching the videos about the Sun / Oracle merger, I would be > interested to hear people's views on the furture of Solaris and Open > Solaris. > > I am concerned that Oracle may turn Solaris into a closed 'appliance' > Operating system which will eventually lead to Solaris disappearing from the > general purpose Unix OS landscape. > > I am also having really grave concerns for the future of OpenSolaris. There > was no mention anywhere about Oracle's investment in OpenSolaris as a > forefront for pushing development into the primary Solaris OS. > > Is OpenSolaris going to be killed off and will Solaris also be killed as a > general purpose OS in the years to come.. > > Has anyone had any official statement from Oracle on what it will do with > OpenSolaris?? > > I really hate to say this but should I begin focusing at Linux as the > general purpose OS of the future from a career perspective. I really hope > not! > > Cheers > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20100128/7bc8b057/attachment.html>
