Erik, looks like you've already said everything I was thinking of posting and said it better. Oracle is being a blinkered dinosaur, trying to hark back to the good old days when the Unix mainframe was king. It's actually a risky business model, trying to focus entirely on rich investment banks as the only customers, without realising that they're only your customers because they are the last ones to move into the 21st century and adopt anything new. Then try to grow that market by offering Solaris 11 as something new, innovative and different.
This sentence made me laugh: "We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator community for Solaris." Totally contradicted by everything else in that memo! How vibrant does this community feel right now? How does killing OpenSolaris help grow a new community of Solaris system administrators? They also expect more ISVs to put more effort into targeting Solaris, but I really can't see many ISVs caring about it any more. Most of the software we use has either already EOF'd support for Solaris or will do in the next release cycle, because it's just too low-volume to be worth supporting. Oracle is forgetting that ISVs had been benefiting from when Solaris 10 was free, as a platform on which to sell their software to the masses. Why should they now care about selling just a handful of licenses to a few companies that happen to be paying Oracle a shed load of money for a premium platform? ISVs only get money per license sold, for which the only thing that matters is the number of Solaris installations, not how expensive they were or how much money Oracle made from selling "software, hardware complete". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
