Shawn Walker wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 12:20 PM, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is Sun even sure it's self what will do what and what will replace what? I >> just get an email from somebody of this list saying Indiana will replace >> SXCE and will be the basis for Solaris 11. Which is ff-ing funny since >> people who work at Sun (and highly placed functions) assured me less than >> four weeks ago that SXCE would stay around, that they needed the community >> to do what they are doing now and how they cant do things with out them and >> that SXCE would be the basis for Solaris 11 and Indiana was merrely a >> product derived from SXCE. > > It is true according to other high ranking folks at Sun. The plan is > to eventually phase out SXCE and replace it with Indiana according to > them. > > This was discussed at the OpenSolaris Developer's Summit. > There was some confusion internally, but I believe that it has been resolved. SXCE is not going away any time soon. It serves several functions, one of which is as a beta test version of the next Solaris release. As long as the next marketing release of Solaris contains proprietary bits (i.e. the closed branch) that Sun wants to be available for testing, then SXCE must continue. -- blu "You've added a new disk. Do you want to replace your current drive, protect your data from a drive failure or expand your storage capacity?" - Disk management as it should be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
