On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> | On 2011-11-09 18:55:12, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> |
> | I see Oracle has released Solaris 11. While I don't think it was ever
> | actually promised, based on the leaked internal memo they were talking
> | about releasing the source code once the product was released.
>
> Their comment today was "no comment." I wouldn't expect to see the gate open
> again.
Nor would anyone, I imagine. It was -- in Schrock's immortal words --
a pinky promise, and I don't think anyone expects them to follow
through on it.
> | Think that will actually happen? It would sure be nice to be able to
> | have a common zpool/zfs feature set between Solaris and Illumos based
> | distributions.
>
> I'm not holding my breath.
>
> | Conversely, I've seen a lot of new features and fixes flying by on the
> | Illumos dev mailing list; any evidence of Oracle pulling those in to
> | their commercial Solaris?
>
> Not without opening up tangential bits of their code. bmc could speak more to
> the intent behind that. ;)
No evidence of either. To me, it is clear that the epicenter of
innovation for the core technologies like ZFS, DTrace and Zones has
shifted to the community -- but I doubt that Oracle will ever be so
self-aware as to come to the same conclusion...
> Basically, assume that we're all hanging out in different walled gardens.
>
> Cut code, keep calm, carry on.
Words to live by!
- Bryan
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