bsd wrote:
If the quote you printed is accurate "...some features of its Oracle Solaris will
not appear in OpenSolaris..." is right, then don't you have it wrong when you say
that was Sun's position?
I thought OpenSolaris was the development branch of Solaris, and new
technologies, such as Crossbow, may not make it into the Solaris releases.
Only partially correct - OpenSolaris is indeed the development branch of
Solaris, and not all technologies in OpenSolaris will be backported to
the CURRENT Solaris release (e.g. Solaris 10). When Solaris Next makes
its appearance, it will be a /superset/ of a snapshot of OpenSolaris.
My take on the quote is Oracle is developing Solaris independently of
OpenSolaris and they don't plan to introduce some of those features into
OpenSolaris.
That take is completely wrong, and made from whole cloth speculation.
Why would Oracle have a development team for Solaris independent of
OpenSolaris, when OpenSolaris is supposed to be the development branch for new
technologies that will be adopted into Solaris?
We /had/ this entire discussion a couple of months ago. Go look it up
in the archives.
Solaris Next (likely "Solaris 11") will NOT simply be a stabilized build
of OpenSolaris. I.e. it won't be something like OpenSolaris 2010.03
renamed.
There /will/ be certain items which CANNOT be opened which will be
included in Solaris Next, though that list is shrinking rapidly. This
is currently (and has always been) the case. Certain drivers are things
that come to mind right now.
Also, certain projects that are deemed "non-core value-add" will be kept
closed. As everyone else points out, a chunk of the Fishworks stuff (the
GUI and some management tools for the Storage 7000 line) is a good
example. I would fully expect that similar items are likewise
un-opened. That is, I highly expect that stuff which helps Oracle build
a unique appliance be kept to themselves. None of this is really "core"
OpenSolaris by any stretch. I see no indications that things such as
Crossbow or ZFS would ever be excluded from OpenSolaris. Exclusions are
almost certainly things further up the software stack, and more properly
term "applications" than "operating system components".
Finally, despite what Microsoft has been saying for awhile, not
everything is the "Operating System". Solaris Next is really a bundle
of related software shipped together - remember when the various iPlanet
products were included in the Solaris media kit? They weren't Open at
the time and could hardly be called part of the OS; I would expect
similar bundling to occur when Solaris Next appears.
Again, this is policy isn't new to Oracle, and really doesn't impact the
viability or value of OpenSolaris.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
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