Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure...what are we talking about ?
>
> Le 22 mars 2010 ? 18:34, Alan Coopersmith a ?crit :
>
>> ????? ???????????? wrote:
>>> Opensolaris needs the ports to survive.
>> Why? Ports to hardware rarely seen by most users hardly seem essential.
>
>
> To be considered as really "Open", the best is to be able to run on ANY
> hardware.
> I'm not sure of what/where is the issue.
>
> I could understand if Oracle don't want to put "too much" money on this type
> of port...but they should consider to help as best effort.
The license allows people who want to port to do so, but the request seemed to
be that Oracle should fund the ports as a matter of the OS survival.
I'm not saying ports are bad, just that I don't see the port to System/Z as
particularly crucial and requiring the OGB to escalate to Oracle that of all
the problems OpenSolaris has, this is one of the most pressing for them to
apply funding to solve - there's a lot more things that would be far more
useful to apply resources to fixing than ports to mainframe hardware.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
