Very well said. All the smb's we were promoting S10 to went back to MS following the takeover. Support being effectively unaccessible on non Sun branded hardware, license changes, security updates no longer being freely available, coupled with ensuing exorbitant support fees even if you were running on Sun branded hardware, have made S10 irrelevant to this market. The path Sun had previously tried to encourage from OS to S10 and support for those who needed it have been priced out of reach for all but those enterprises with the deepest of pockets. So I no longer care a wit about S10, nor by extension "Oracle Solaris Next", wh/I expect to be similarly out of reach. Larry's targeting the top %5. We're not that market. So let's just drop the pretense that we are and promoting the commercial stuff.
Like you, however, I'd considered possibility of using OS for some of these services, behind well configured firewalls. But even now that possibility seems to be fading into the sunset..... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
