Case in point: At my previous company, I recommended that we purchase Sun-related products and services. I am now looking at how to replace a number of OpenSolaris boxes with something else. So far Oracle's actions do not inspire trust in me; I see only risk in continuing to associate with their products.
It's too bad; I had really jumped on the OpenSolaris bandwagon, too. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do ordinarily very complicated system administration functions. When people asked what we were using for an OS and I replied, "OpenSolaris", they were stunned. They didn't know Solaris even still [i]existed[/i], never mind was gaining adoption. The fact that I rarely had to even perform system administration tasks made it all that more palatable. I was truly proud of what I put together; now I am dismantling it in sadness. Employees will make recommendations based on what their they know. The freedom to examine ARC cases, source code, etc., as upcoming releases were taking shape educated me about the platform. As I've lost that source of education, I can no longer make recommendations about the platform, nor will I invest any more of my personal time in examining this project now dead to the needs of its consumers. Farewell, OpenSolaris! Long Live OpenSolaris! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
