On 08/14/10 09:25 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
Frankly, at this point, I'd be all for Oracle spinning out the Solaris
group as a fully-owned subsidiary, responsible for paying its own way.
You'd see Solaris make lots of interesting product/marketing decisions
and far more cash than I think Oracle is going to make with what
they're doing now.
That's an interesting thought Eric. It would make collaboration much
easier.
I think the root cause of this debacle was Sun allowing OpenSolaris to
get too far ahead of Solaris 10. I can just imagine a conversation
between an Oracle exec and a Sun one;
"So you have all this world beating OS technology, how are you
monetising it?"
"Er, we're not, we're giving it away"
"Ho mum... We need this in the market now!"
If I were the Oracle exec I'd want to focus my resources on getting some
return for all that wonderful technology.
While I agree getting Solaris 11 out should be the priority, I still
think cutting off the OpenSolaris community is incredibly short sighted,
probably driven by the US corporate obsession with the next quarter's
results.
--
Ian.
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