To all those who seemed to have been confused by my reply to Ian's post please note the following:
1) My comments were intended as a response to Ian's assertion of the 'inevitability of IPS'. 2) The example I provided, Nexenta, is pretty strong evidence that incorporation of IPS is not requisite for a successful Open Solars derivative. 3) My comments did not even touch vaguely upon any issues of technical merit of package systems. 4) I was here when Indiana was released. My recollection is that there was quite a bit of uproar about IPS, among other things, specifically in the context of the manner in which Sun played their trump card. Others are certainly free to interpret those events differently. 5) Funny that I'm accused of stirring the pot when the fact of the matter is that Ian used the ruse of a pat on the back as a thinly veiled cover for effectively telling Joerg that he'd better toe the Oracle IPS line. At least that was my read. Hence my response. Your mileage may vary. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
