Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Kirk
Thanks for the responses here (and by email)! It sounds like the amount of work it would take to sanity-check our Solaris 10 betas on 2009.06 would be minimal: at least to get it out there and get feedback... and use such releases to "test the waters". Even if it means our SE team carrying the

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/20/10 09:26 AM, Ken Mays wrote: Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering too

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Ken Mays
Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering tools to OpenSolaris due to the Nvidia driv

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-19 Thread alan pae
> So as a general question: do you feel there's enough > business use of OpenSolaris for ISV's to start > targeting it for official support? Or will it always > be a waiting game for the next official version of > "Oracle Solaris" to get pushed out the door? Up until about now OpenSolaris has been

[osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-19 Thread Mike Kirk
Hi all, I work for Halcyon, and we've been selling monitoring software for Solaris (and other OS's) for many years. In general our Solaris 10 builds "just work" on OpenSolaris (no surprise there)... though we've never included official support for it in our main releases... or in our beta progr