John Falkenthal wrote: > LDom's is taking off in the market. We've been shipping since April, > our own "internal" support list is flooded with queries on a daily > basis, Ash and I are being asked to meet with ISV's and customers on a > daily basis, we've had to respond to numerous emergency RFP's requiring > LDoms engineering roadmap data to support large sales efforts > immediately. We have a vibrant development team both internally and > externally (including engineering from companies like Canonical). We > are already in production at key customer accounts like Genentech. We > have a multi-year engineering roadmap that includes over 20 separate > projects, we are soliciting community support now for development of key > migration tools. Moving forward with an open solaris community for > LDoms is a no brainer.
BTW - none of those is basis for an OpenSolaris Community Group. You could argue all of those above statements also apply to Microsoft Windows. Should we grant them a Community Group? Whether you've taken off in the market or not is irrelevant. Whether you've shipped or not is irrelevant. Whether your support list is flooded with queries, whether you have ISVs and c customers, whether you have a long engineering roadmap, and whether you're in production at customers is irrelevant to me. I'm only interested in whether you will actually pursue open development and open discussion. Ashley claims you will, so fine. The only rebuttal I can make to that is that you haven't had any open discussion on the lists so far. As financial firms say "Past performance is no indicator of future results" Maybe you guys will have a thriving and vibrant community; I hope you do. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
