Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-03 Thread Tom Kranz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Aug 2011, at 04:11, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 08/02/11 14:04, Pablo Oddera wrote: >> Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code to >> the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has "Unbreakable >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/02/11 14:04, Pablo Oddera wrote: > Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code to > the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has "Unbreakable > Linux (sic)", which is no more than a glorified clon of Red Hat (love Red > Hat by the way). So in s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Linda Kateley
On 8/2/11 9:23 PM, Anil wrote: Was that before things like ZFS etc? that actually came out with opensolaris. there was some number that we hardly sold any of them, which made it ok to cancel. That happened to Sun because they were "donating" everything away, including the source. Open source m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Anil
Was that before things like ZFS etc? That happened to Sun because they were "donating" everything away, including the source. Open source might increase community involvement, but won't keep the boat afloat. Finding the right price isn't my job, but all I can say is, I am not gong to pay $800-$10

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Linda Kateley
So sun tried that, it wasn't $99 but it was 349 for a year, for basically self support.. and sun ended up on the side of the street with a sign "will build os for food" Oracle will make you pay enterprise pricing for enterprise products, the idea of concept of enterprise is diminished by not c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Anil
For us the biggest issue is the price of the OS. We don't mind paying something like $99/year/system or some thing of that sorts to run Solaris (with patches). Sorry, support not required. Why can't Oracle do something like that? What's it got to loose? The pricing they gave us was ridiculous, so w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Pablo Oddera
Alan, Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code to the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has "Unbreakable Linux (sic)", which is no more than a glorified clon of Red Hat (love Red Hat by the way). So in short, they gave up a little, steal a lot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/02/11 13:45, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux & other open >> source >> products. > > > Please tell us what Oracle did before Sun's takeover, because the things > listed there are Sun's legacy! BerkeleyDB, btrfs, eclipse, and basicall

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the Linux > 3.0 > release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running Linux > as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs & general kernel tuning). > In the by changeset column: RH did a 11,1%, O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a >> charity, >> and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, > > You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support for > an OpenS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a > charity, > and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support for an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Brandon Mercer
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Tom Kranz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 2 Aug 2011, at 12:09, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> In a nutshell, Oracle wants free patches for its Linux, but >> she does not want to share technology with others. Nice >> "licensing m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Kranz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Aug 2011, at 12:09, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > In a nutshell, Oracle wants free patches for its Linux, but > she does not want to share technology with others. Nice > "licensing model"... Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
One more thing. > So I'm not saying I'm against open source (who is?) but I feel > that every business has a choice over which licensing model is > most appropriate for their products and profitability. Oracle wanted to get for free patches from RH, but in fact she was stealing customers from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-01 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. I'd been working as Sun Campus Ambassador for about two years before Sun eclipse. Sun technologies seemed astonishing. Also we had several SPARC servers in university computer center. However, price for SPARC hardware was unreasonable. Our new platform is x64 IBM blades. What about So

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-01 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > And now that Oracle has close sourced Solaris, I am very sure you will count > its users with the fingers of your hands! Single desktop users? Sun Ray users? Server users? Enterprises, small to medium business, or sole proprietorships?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> So I'm not saying I'm against open source (who is?) but I feel that > every business has a choice over which licensing model is most appropriate > for > their products and profitability. And I as a user have the right to like or dislike what a company does. In this case, I strongly believe th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:31 -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > The problem in this instance is that Sun DID open source many cool things > > and post Sun take over Oracle has been systematically "undoing" Sun's open > > source gifting via a variet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Edward Martinez
On 07/31/11 09:09, Gary Driggs wrote: It sounds to me as if Oracle has decided to keep its competitors in the OS market from using their innovations well,It appears Oracle Solaris 11 will be released in Nov according to this code snippet. By then I think we will know if solaris will remain

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 31, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > The problem in this instance is that Sun DID open source many cool things and > post Sun take over Oracle has been systematically "undoing" Sun's open source > gifting via a variety of "innovative" tactics at pretty much every chance > they c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 09:09 -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > If it's been five years in the making then that would suggest that not many > Java VM and API developers were let go during the acquisition of Sun. Or were > they? > http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/apache-developers-java-7-contains-bugs-3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Gary Driggs
If it's been five years in the making then that would suggest that not many Java VM and API developers were let go during the acquisition of Sun. Or were they? http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/apache-developers-java-7-contains-bugs-35619. But I have to wonder who would be so bold or ignorant a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, Java 7 has been released and there is "praise" of this achievement in the following URL http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/java-se-7-a-triumph-for-oracle.html What is really annoying with this masterpiece of "objective" journalism is that, in a nutshell, the author says that Or