I really don't think there will be any need to fork. If anything, people moving around who're still committed to the technology is a very good thing.
OpenSolaris is healthy. The code is healthy too. And so is the rather nice CDDL, which I prefer over GNU's hideous template stamp. They're working things out with Dell, and hopefully at some point will go back to selling developmental / OpenSolaris support too. This would be useful for software vendors for a certainty. Speaking as someone who has spent much of my career participating in various closed beta's of Sun's products, I have to say that making the OS open source has reaped some rather large rewards. It's also made a situation where Oracle can't just abandon what it paid good money for, shareholders would be calling for people's heads if they did that. Because of what Sun did, they managed to build an OS & products that other vendors have trouble competing with. Solaris has had fcip since somewhere before 2004, other vendors are still jerking around with it. There are a whole lot of advantages to not having to remake the wheel; instead to improve a car that's already a pretty nice ride. HP has faced a fair amount of pressure in that respect, and so has IBM with AIX. Their results don't compare well to Sun's. My main point goes back to betas & community though. What was missing before was the sort of community that Sun built after it transformed how they did business. They made certain to create something that would be very hard to kill off. Tim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
