> http://www.internetnews.com/dev- > news/article.php/3867776/Oracle+Says+OpenSolaris+Will+Stay+Open+Source. > htm
The above link references the "real" article, which is: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3867771/OpenSolaris-Alive- and-Well-at-Oracle.htm I think people are listening with too strong a "wishful thinking" ear. I think peoples' responses thus far focus too much on phrases "Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available as open source, and Oracle will continue to actively support and participate in the community," and "will continue to contribute technologies to OpenSolaris." And "OpenSolaris end users and contributors will find things mostly unchanged as a result of the Oracle acquisition." I think people need to listen a little more closely: "future commercial support options for OpenSolaris might be more limited." "Solaris is our focus, on both SPARC and x86." "There may be some things we choose not to open source" Here's how I interpret all of this: I think they're shifting some percentage of developers from opensolaris to solaris. Instead of letting opensolaris lead the way, and "trickle down" with open source contributions to solaris ... Solaris will lead the way, and contributions will trickle down to opensolaris, sometimes closed source. But the good news is: Development efforts and valuable contributions continue for both. Hopefully they'll start by taking all the ways opensolaris is more advanced than solaris ... and incorporate them into solaris. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
