Gary wrote:
I also still fail to see the reason for OpenSolaris. Solaris 10 was developed when Solaris 9 was released, and they didn't need a development branch for Solaris 10. Really, I don't see why Oracle would spend tens of millions on Sparc/Solaris and spend tens of millions on OpenSolaris. Only to turn around and spend millions more to make OpenSolaris the new Solaris 11.
There's a number of misconceptions there, most of which Alan Coopersmith addressed in an earlier post:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-February/053914.html -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
