> "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > What OpenSolaris needs is something like this:
>> >
>> > OpenSolaris: the premier open source server platform
>> >
>> > or...
>> >
>> > "The OpenSolaris project is the only SVR4 based open source
>> > platform that scales evenly from 1 CPU to 128 CPUs."
>>
>> That is sweet.
>>
>> Can we say that it is UNIX ? At the very least let's look at the
>> Single UNIX Spec and determine if we can say it is UNIX ?
>
> This is the most important argument: OpenSolaris is UNIX 03 approved and
> OSS.
Jörg, as I see it, OpenSolaris may be two words slammed together :
Open Solaris
Remember back in the days of the pilot? Those two words were used a lot
and then the marketing folks ( or whomever ) decided that OpenSolaris is
the brandname or trademark. Wholly owned by Sun of course.
What it really is, to me, is Open UNIX. This is about taking a previously
closed proprietary UNIX(tm) distro and making it open such that other UNIX
distros would be possible. OpenSolaris is two words slammed together where
one of them is a product name. Like OpenCorvette but the real concept is
Open Automobile.
OpenSolaris is about UNIX being made open.
That is what it is to me and always has since day zero of the pilot.
Dennis Clarke
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