John Plocher wrote: > In this case it is clear that users place specific value on the > particular > version being used, and that, once installed, are reluctant to > upgrade/change. > Forcing them to change will either alienate them or keep them from > upgrading, > neither of which seems desirable. I think we have to acknowledge that > including > externally created components like AMPP is significantly different > from CDE, > GNOME and ksh93.
If there is a significant community that wants this better supported on Solaris than on RedHat, let either the OpenSolaris community or the PHP community do that. Sun can motivate those communities if it is in Sun's best interest. The problem isn't that locking down on a version will alienate the users. That's exactly what RedHat (and probably others) do. The problem is that there is an easy alternate source if you don't like what RedHat delivers. There doesn't seem to be a good alternate source if you don't like what Solaris delivers. If this is important, we need to nurture/motivate that alternate source. I must be missing something, but I can't make sense of the last sentence. Last I knew CDE, Gnome and ksh93 were all externally created components. If the assertion is that all externally created components are not alike, I couldn't agree more. That's been the basis of much of what I've been saying today and goes back to the ARC materials generated when we first started bringing FOSS into Solaris (circa 1999). - jek3
