Paul: "The bottom line, Sun couldn't afford to pay vendors anymore to continue development on the Solaris OS anymore. They were bleeding trying to keep the workstation alive. The first thing Oracle did after acquiring Sun was to stop the cash flow to outside vendors for development. Opera, the web browser announced the will not port to Solaris anymore, and so did my CAD vendor. I suspect we'll see others soon. Adobe has been paid for current releases, I'd like to see what happens with Acroreader 10 when it comes out. This cutting out of paying outside vendors to support Solaris is how I believe Oracle became profitable their fist quarter."
Where can one find info re Sun or Oracle payments to third-party vendors? I never assumed that it did not happen as part of general industry practice, but hardly at the scale of Oracle's last quarter profitability. What also does not make sense to me is that some of the Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, and Real Realplayer install and config issues, as well as the related Oracle Solaris specific technical marketing issues, would be near trivial work for any skilled inside developer. In other words, it is so uncostly that it is not cost-effective to not to do the work. It would be far less than the cost of a single conference and, I suggest, could be a decimal-point expense for Solaris brand maintinence. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org
