Greetings, I've been reading a lot of the threads on here about the future of opensolaris, and it seems that there *might* be a future, depending on whose post you read. While I truly hope for that, I would like a definitive answer, or at least one I could work off of in the future.
Right now, my organization would like to implement a long-term data storage solution (particularly with the advantages of ZFS (dedup, snapshotting, ease of management, etc). Given the current circumstances with Oracle, and the lack of mostly 'official' information, we've begun to reach the point where we might decide to implement this service as a linux based solution, and leverage a linux filesystem, especially since the hardware is coming very soon, and we need to get working on it. Now, the idea right now might be to leverage a linux solution in the short term until everything is 'worked out' with opensolaris/solaris, with the possibility of moving to a better platform long-term. So here's my question: What should be expected out of opensolaris (or even solaris) in the future? I realize the possibility of forking the project has been discussed, but also there has been information that internal builds are being worked on, etc. Would it be advantageous to *wait* for an official answer from Oracle, as well as watch to see what happens with opensolaris? The issue is enterprise backing, because if we're going to spend money on hardware, we'd like to have enterprise support/etc. Given that ZFS dedup and other performance (and bug) fixes won't be out until Solaris 11/Next/whateverthehellORaclewantstocallit, would it be a smart bet to stick around and wait? PS: sorry about starting another thread about this, but some of the threads with similar questions have turned into semantics, flame wars, FUD, etc, and all I'd like to see is a least the opinion of a few individuals with some actual insight on the matter... Thanks, I appreciate it; stay thristy... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
