Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread bsd
Don't apologize if you feel or think a certain way. Just because most on here believe you can only have an opinion that matches theirs, doesn't mean you can't offer up your own. I've said it before, that I personally don't know why Oracle would spend millions developing Solaris 10 and spend

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, bsd mascotgr...@yahoo.com wrote: I've said it before, that I personally don't know why Oracle would spend millions developing Solaris 10 and spend millions developing OpenSolaris when OpenSolaris isn't a revenue generator.  I don't buy into it's the

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread Roger Bisson
I've said it before, that I personally don't know why Oracle would spend millions developing Solaris 10 and spend millions developing OpenSolaris when OpenSolaris isn't a revenue generator. I don't buy into it's the development model line either. Funny that I never heard it was the

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread James Mansion
Roger Bisson wrote: Personally, I am of the view that Sun's original decision to release Solaris in the form of OpenSolaris was absolutely the right decision to ensure Solaris' maintenance and growth as a platform by making it available to developers and technicians (thereby encouraging its

Re: [osol-discuss] College investigation

2010-05-16 Thread Charles Hedrick
I find Solaris technically superior to the alternatives for more sophisticated production use, for reasons mentioned already. However I would be reluctant to make major commitments to it if you're not already using it, until the fallout from the Oracle merger settles. It may well work out just

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread Roger Bisson
James, Personally, I am of the view that Sun's original decision to release Solaris in the form of OpenSolaris was absolutely the right decision to ensure Solaris' maintenance and growth as a platform by making it available to developers and technicians (thereby encouraging its application

[osol-discuss] Thanks for the memories

2010-05-16 Thread No Flames
Hi all. I've have been an avid supporter of Solaris since the mid 1990's and was especially excited when Sun decided to open source Solaris in the form of Opensolaris. I can't say enough about what Sun brought to the Unix world especially in the last few years with technologies like Dtrace

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle forces Opera.com out of Solaris (was: Opera drops browser support for Solaris)

2010-05-16 Thread Tim Scanlon
ruario said, As I have stated elsewhere, there is absolutely no truth in this at all: Thank you for clearing that up. I'd already gotten the tarball for current, but not yet installed it when I came across the prior FUD. Now I'll happily go install it. Tim -- This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Tech events in Japan at the end of May

2010-05-16 Thread James Grisanzio
hey ... if anyone on this list is from Japan or if anyone is planning to visit Tokyo in the next couple of weeks, there are multiple tech events going on. The Japan OpenSolaris community holds its own events twice each month, but many of the guys also participate at a variety of other events