Matthew Nawrocki wrote: > 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... > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Richard Frost > <richard.j.frost at gmail.com <mailto: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. >
hi ... I can appreciate your concern, and I'm sorry I don't have enough information to answer all of your questions in detail. However, I will say this: most of the rumors during the many months of this process have turned out to be wrong (no surprise there). So, we really have to let things emerge. The acquisition is quite big, and I think it will take time for more plans to be made public now that the organizations can actually interact. Also, I see OpenSolaris linked to from the Oracle site, I see Oracle talking about community and user groups (and Teresa/Lynn were at the Oracle UG event the other day), and Oracle did provide a great deal of attention to Solaris. So, until we know more, my only suggestion is to keep going as we have. That's what I'm doing. And that's what my colleagues are doing as well. We still have many website updates in the works. We have a product to put out in a few months. We keep going ... Jim
