Ivar Janmaat wrote:
> Sun customers have invested many man years in installation and software
> configuration scripting based on JET and jumpstart.
> So SXCE was a perfect way of protecting this investment until the AI
> team has finished a better alternative.
Are these enterprises actually actively widely deploying an alpha release
of the OS? Aren't places with huge jumpstart investments mainly on the
stable enterprise release, Solaris 10?
> I am convinced Oracle and Sun will loose money if they continue with the
> EOL for Nevada builds whithout a good alternative.
> Hopefully someone at Sun will stand up and say that Enterprise customers
> are to important to leave behind.
> So if SXCE is not extended, there should be a really good alternative
> for Enterprise users before the EOL of Nevada.
Nevada won't be EOL for a decade or so - it's not even hit beta, much
less final release yet. You probably mean SXCE, which won't be possible
to produce much longer, since the sources will be converted to build IPS
packages directly for the Nevada builds, and not the SVR4 format packages
used for the SXCE builds and currently converted to IPS format later.
I'm not sure what money you expect Sun to lose - SXCE builds are provided
free of charge, and there's no support contracts available for them, so
what income are you thinking of for them?
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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