> 11. Solaris has a bright future.
i don't think so. Linux has been running solaris out of the server rooms for a long time, that is why in 2005 SUN decided to open up solaris and give solaris away freely hoping that would attract customers. from 2005 -2009 things did seem more promising for solaris, then here comes Oracle reverts solaris back to that point in time when it begin to die. UNIX(solaris,aix,etc) sales are rapidly decreasing, a system running linux and nehalen is as good a sparc system. so I think if oracle continues managing solaris with it's current model the future will belong to linux and windows. With Linux around, I don't expect many customers are willing to pay the current prices for solaris contracts. quote: "n 2005, Sun released the source code to Solaris, described then as the company’s crown jewel. Why do this? The simplest answer is that Solaris had been losing ground to an open source competitor in Linux. Losing ground was a symptom of economics" http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2010/08/27/the-future-of-solaris/ http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1519243,00.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
