On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]>wrote:
> > When an actual product (as contrasted with a formerly mostly > open development project) was concerned, even Sun was careful > about commenting on planned developments. Oracle however is > _notorious_ for not letting anyone below very high levels > authorize such information to be released. > > AFAIK, Darren still works for Oracle. Last time this sort > of question came up, he really couldn't comment much, and > seemed rather uncomfortable (my impression, anyway) with > the situation that put him in. Check the archives for > more info. > > The answer may well be to simply wait and see what happens, > unless someone (outside of Oracle) has the expertise to take > the latest open ipfilter and the last OpenSolaris and try to > update the combination to work with Solaris 11 Express. > It might even be worth talking to the Illumos or OpenIndiana > (google for those if necessary) folks to see if they've thought > about it (at least with respect to the pseudo-fork they're > maintaining, from which it might be easier to get to > Solaris 11 Express if that's where you want to end up). > > > A month or two ago there was a whole discussion thread that Darren participated in, in which he stated that the job situation has not changed, and that he is still at Oracle. So yes, unless that situation changes, or unless someone can submit patches or (Darren really doesn't like this but) forks the code, I am afraid ipfilter is frozen in time indefinitely. SC
