Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-05-01 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, Callum. Thank you for the answer which indicates that the project is possibly not abandoned by Oracle, at least. ;) I'd only like to join others with the plea for some more available information - since a lot of FUD spreads based on suspicion and lack of replies. Some banner on an

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-05-01 Thread Svein Skogen
On 01.05.2010 21:42, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, Callum. Thank you for the answer which indicates that the project is possibly not abandoned by Oracle, at least. ;) I'd only like to join others with the plea for some more available information - since a lot of FUD spreads based on

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-05-01 Thread Matthias Pfützner
As stated many times now on many of the public lists on solaris and/or opensolaris: Oracle states something, when it's there! So, as sad as tgat is, we need to get used to it. And others already mentioned that build 134a is done, so that's at least an indication... So, we all need to wait

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Hello, Callum. Thank you for the answer which indicates that the project is possibly not abandoned by Oracle, at least. ;) I'd only like to join others with the plea for some more available information - since a lot of FUD

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Armstrong
You're right. My memory was that he'd resigned and I only found news articles saying as much (and until I corrected it, the Wikipedia article also stated he'd resigned; unfortunately I can't fix the news articles that say he resigned rather than not being offered a position at Oracle). I had

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-21 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Paul Armstrong opensola...@otoh.org wrote: You're right. My memory was that he'd resigned and I only found news articles saying as much (and until I corrected it, the Wikipedia article also stated he'd resigned; unfortunately I can't fix the news articles

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-21 Thread john
Waiting Why no any office news about Opensolaris ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 22/04/2010 00:13, john wrote: Waiting Why no any office news about Opensolaris ? Because, like every other time people have asked, it's not ready yet. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Armstrong
Except that Simon resigned. It was his decision not Oracle's. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Paul Armstrong opensola...@otoh.org wrote: Except that Simon resigned. It was his decision not Oracle's. Who says that? Who or what are your sources?? If I recall correctly, he told the opposite:

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-18 Thread Duane S. Hawkins
You can get around the boot loop issue by editing the Grub menu entry (press e at the boot screen). Delete the line referencing splash.xpm and remove the text ,console=graphics from the boot line. You should get past the boot sequence. Edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst to make the changes

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-17 Thread jay krik
this isn't really a reply. As I can't offer any help. New user to Open solaris. I am really disappointed in the hassle to get any version up and running. I don't have the time or experience (any more) to have to keep coming up with patches to get the damn thing to work. I downloaded 2009.06 and

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-16 Thread Grzegorz Rozniecki
I believe that 2010.03 will be released when some critical bugs (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2010-April/017812.html) will be fixed - probably in b138 (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2010-April/017814.html) - but it's not an official info, just

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Alex Viskovatoff) ask: Just out of curiosity, do you know under what OS CERN uses ZFS? No, but either Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris... ;-) Matthias -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | Klaus Kinkel war in China Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de | und

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Svein Skogen
On 31.03.2010 10:06, Orvar Korvar wrote: If you value your data, you should reconsider. But if your data is not important, then skip ZFS. File system data corruption test by researcher: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=169 ZFS data corruption test by researchers:

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Svein Skogen) wrote: On 31.03.2010 10:06, Orvar Korvar wrote: If you value your data, you should reconsider. But if your data is not important, then skip ZFS. File system data corruption test by researcher: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=169 ZFS data corruption test by

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Svein Skogen
On 14.04.2010 09:07, Matthias Pfützner wrote: You (Svein Skogen) wrote: On 31.03.2010 10:06, Orvar Korvar wrote: If you value your data, you should reconsider. But if your data is not important, then skip ZFS. File system data corruption test by researcher:

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Svein Skogen) wrote: Check: http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ Which is another worthless document, without any info on what controllers they actually tested with. I too can make claim about corruption and data loss. But without pointing

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Svein Skogen
On 14.04.2010 09:33, Matthias Pfützner wrote: You (Svein Skogen) wrote: Check: http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ Which is another worthless document, without any info on what controllers they actually tested with. I too can make claim about

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-14 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Svein Skogen) wrote: What's it, your after? That study is more than 2 years old now, and the RAID-controllers, that didn't work, probably will have updated their FWs by now. Ahh, so first you use the papers to prove how superior ZFS is to raidcontrollers for your data. Then, when

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-13 Thread Mike DeMarco
Hmmm... I am glad I can change the backdrop. :-) Now, In the future it will most likely violate the usage agreement to remove or revamp any Oracle logos. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Floyd
What about Apple? Apple is also a small Unix-Vendor, has NO OpenSource Version, and keeps MacOS alive and kicking to generate immense revenue from its IP... ;-) No need for the double quotes. Mac OS X on Intel is certified SUSv3, i.e., genuine UNIX. Also, the kernel parts are opensource

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-13 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Paul, You (Paul Floyd) wrote: You (Matthias Pfützner) wrote: What about Apple? Apple is also a small Unix-Vendor, has NO OpenSource Version, and keeps MacOS alive and kicking to generate immense revenue from its IP... ;-) No need for the double quotes. Mac OS X on Intel is certified

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
CERN now uses (not at all yet, but going there) ZFS just for the obvious reasons! They produce massive data, and need that data to be correct Just out of curiosity, do you know under what OS CERN uses ZFS? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3? (Please don't feed the troll)

2010-04-07 Thread Svein Skogen
On 07.04.2010 03:30, Erik Trimble wrote: Email from bsd is a consistent (if subtle) troll. Please do not feed him by replying to any posts of his. Seems the definition of troll here is someone who isn't drinking the fanboi koolaid. I had hoped that such rabid behavior was something left

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3? (Please don't feed the troll)

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 07/04/2010 03:02, bsd wrote: I'm entitled to share my thoughts, especially since I've used OpenSolaris from its inception through build 129; but it seems you're only accepting of opinions that align with your own? It doesn't matter for how long you've been using Open Solaris. Frankly,

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3? (Please don't feed the troll)

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
I do accept other opinions. But: You're not correct, and you're misreading stuff in a subtle way and using well-constructed mis-leading WRONG assumptions drawn from what YOU interpret into YOUR reading... I just proofed it with a SINGLE sentence that you put into your last email. I'm to lazy to

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 07/04/2010 01:54, bsd wrote: You can read many things into words and statements, but if you read carefully how Oracle responds to questions about Solaris and OpenSolaris, you can only wonder what will happen once the dust settles. Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did prior to

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
Hmmm. I guess it is who you are and if your opinions are in line with Oracle/OpenSolaris because the previous post seems to be against the agreement in joining and nothing has been said to them? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You might be interested in reading: http://bit.ly/9Yzjs0 You (bsd) wrote: Hmmm. I guess it is who you are and if your opinions are in line with Oracle/OpenSolaris because the previous post seems to be against the agreement in joining and nothing has been said to them? -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
As well as in: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sessionId=containerId=lcUS22283210 It's an IDC Statement w.r.t.: A Sun Support Migration Plan: Oracle Announces New Support Offerings for Systems I (Matthias Pfützner) wrote: You might be interested in reading: http://bit.ly/9Yzjs0

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
You people are really uptight and defensive about OpenSolaris and any talk about negative intentions Oracle may have towards it. I stand by my position about x86/Sparc, it was developed for x86 laptops (OpenSolaris is like PC-BSD), because who would develop a data center operating system

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (bsd) wrote: You people are really uptight and defensive about OpenSolaris and any talk about negative intentions Oracle may have towards it. At least we know, who we are, and aren't posting anonymously... Just again, to state it clearly: Open Source is Open Source is Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 11:57 AM, bsd wrote: You people are really uptight and defensive about OpenSolaris and any talk about negative intentions Oracle may have towards it. I stand by my position about x86/Sparc, it was developed for x86 laptops (OpenSolaris is like PC-BSD), because who would develop a

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
I (Matthias Pfützner) wrote: It's great on a laptop. But the last build I can get to work on my laptop is 129. I tried again last night when I reinstalled with build 129 and did an image-update. It merely does a continuous loop. I get the grub menu and select the new b-e then it

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
Thank you. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Don Quichotte
The question is IF. And WHY all the silence and secrecy?? Because they have other things to do? Because it's *so* much work to make a small announcement on the main page saying they're sorry they won't make the previous deadline and maybe give us a new estimate? I realise we might not

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Milkowski
Ok, I was patient enough and enough is enough. No point arguing with you about basic facts Mr Anonymous Coward. -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Harry Langenbacher
The question is IF. And WHY all the silence and secrecy?? Because they have other things to do? Because it's *so* much work to make a small announcement on the main page saying they're sorry they won't make the previous deadline and maybe give us a new estimate? If they don' know

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Don Quichotte
All of them are at risk to lose their job now? As far as I know we don't know anything about their job security. So since we don't know about their job security (or lack thereof) I'm basing my posts on the assumption that they're not all going to get the sack anytime soon. I'm not asking them

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
Nice there was no reprimand for the idiot who keeps saying BULLSHIT. So, your comments are BULLSHIT. Now, I bet I get some comments telling me my language is inappropriate, although that never happened to the other BULLSHITTER. BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/ 7/10 03:37 PM, bsd wrote: Nice there was no reprimand for the idiot who keeps saying... Folks, please keep it civil or take your discussion off-list. Can we please let this thread die now? -Shawn ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You did state it yourself. Why should Oracle, the second largest SW company on rge planet, put something s minor on the front page of oracle.com? There are way more important things there... And opensolaris.com never did count-downs... And opensolaris.org is NOT responsible for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Hey, anonymous bsd mascot green, calm down... I did call some statements of yours bullshit, especially the one claiming that osol was only made for x86. That's been a wrong statement, and as you kept insisting, I called it bullshit. I know otherwise, as I could follow internally what's been

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 04:53 PM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: So, how's build 134 doing? It seems, you have an thinkpad with a nvidia card, as the only reported systems having that reboot-loop-problem were some such... I had the same problem with my Nvidia Quadro 1600M Graphics card in a Clevo D901C

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
Peace pipe accepted. :-) I set 'console=text' but it still loops. I have also set 'acpi-user-options=2' because otherwise I get a kernel panic. Anything after b129 is problematic for some reason. It's a Toshiba L505D-S5983. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread John Martin
On 04/ 7/10 07:58 PM, bsd wrote: Peace pipe accepted. :-) I set 'console=text' but it still loops. I have also set 'acpi-user-options=2' because otherwise I get a kernel panic. Anything after b129 is problematic for some reason. It's a Toshiba L505D-S5983. Upgrading from b129 on several

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/ 8/10 11:58 AM, bsd wrote: Peace pipe accepted. :-) I set 'console=text' but it still loops. I have also set 'acpi-user-options=2' because otherwise I get a kernel panic. Anything after b129 is problematic for some reason. It's a Toshiba L505D-S5983. Try creating a grub entry

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
When using debug I noticed the problem that John Martin described above which is: /kernel/misc/amd64/pci_autoconfig: undefined symbol 'pcie_get_rc_dip' WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'pci_autoconfig' I used the exact steps he published and am working now in b134! Thank you! -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread bsd
The problems you identified were spot on and your solutions worked perfectly! Thank you! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (James Mansion) wrote: ?? ?? (Martin Bochnig) wrote: No, you are missing the point. The idea was to provide a free and open AllInOne A to Z software platform stack, that would be able to compete with LinUX and to win the OS battle. Then that was a mind-numbingly stupid

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (James Mansion) wrote: Microsoft have never had a problem with ISV mindshare because they made things cheap and accessible. Free is just one form of cheap from that perspective. I absolutely believe that Microsoft's success is not nearly so much related to monopolistic practices as to

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Uros Nedic
What about Apple? Apple is also a small Unix-Vendor, has NO OpenSource Version, and keeps MacOS alive and kicking to generate immense revenue from its IP... ;-) I would like to give some of my thoughts regarding this statement. Namely,Apple doesn't sell MacOS - it actually sells hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Svein Skogen
On 06.04.2010 11:04, Matthias Pfützner wrote: You (James Mansion) wrote: ?? ?? (Martin Bochnig) wrote: No, you are missing the point. The idea was to provide a free and open AllInOne A to Z software platform stack, that would be able to compete with LinUX and to win the OS battle.

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Anon Y Mous
I think the engineers at Sun should take their time with this release and release it whenever it's ready and bug free and not let peer pressure from the community or from management force them to make a final 2010.04 release that has critical bugs in it. I want to use this next release on

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread bsd
You can read many things into words and statements, but if you read carefully how Oracle responds to questions about Solaris and OpenSolaris, you can only wonder what will happen once the dust settles. Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did prior to the acquisition, and will continue

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3? (Please don't feed the troll)

2010-04-06 Thread Erik Trimble
Email from bsd is a consistent (if subtle) troll. Please do not feed him by replying to any posts of his. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3? (Please don't feed the troll)

2010-04-06 Thread bsd
I'm entitled to share my thoughts, especially since I've used OpenSolaris from its inception through build 129; but it seems you're only accepting of opinions that align with your own? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Anon Y Mous
This bug with ZFS deduplication is another one that needs to be fixed correctly before the next long term support stable release of OpenSolaris comes out: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6924824 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Simon Phipps wrote: Ths thing I find interesting in the article, and indeed in many of your statements, is that you show absolutely no sign of self-doubt about whether open sourcing everything you could actually destroyed shareholder value and drove Sun down the toilet. That's because it

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Mansion ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: Ths thing I find interesting in the article, and indeed in many of your statements, is that you show absolutely no sign of self-doubt about whether open sourcing everything you could actually destroyed shareholder

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
James: For 3 pretty ROI-worthless aquisitions alone (Cobalt, STK and MySQL) Sun's top-management spent 10 Billion USD (ten thousand millions!!!). Every time the behaved like kids: At hopelessly overheated markets - instead of selling something - they bought! Obviously the paid way overpriced

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
I agree with that summary of real events and facts. Hence I decided to post everything inline: http://www.michaeldolan.com/1102 Thursday, February 14th, 2008 “I told you so” in order? Roy Fielding resigns from OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
James, here you see that the opposite of your claims appears to be more true : http://www.ratliff.net/blog/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/ Roy Fielding[1] finally quit the OpenSolaris community today, see his resignation letter[2]. The kettle finally boiled over and the realization

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Joerg Schilling wrote: You are correct: without OpenSourcing Solaris, Sun would have been in trouble earlier. What evidence do you have for this? I know there have been externally sourced code contributions, but how much of it needed source rather than the stable ABIs, and how material is it

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) wrote: Solaris code for marketing purposes, rather than creating an independent, community-led, open source project with the ability to make real decisions. I think you're missing the point. What is the benefit to Sun shareholders to have Solaris so open,

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
2010/4/5 Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) mar...@martux.org: James: For 3 pretty ROI-worthless aquisitions alone (Cobalt, STK and MySQL) Sun's top-management spent 10 Billion USD (ten thousand millions!!!). Every time the behaved like kids: At hopelessly overheated markets - instead of

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
2010/4/5 James Mansion ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com: Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) wrote: Solaris code for marketing purposes, rather than creating an independent, community-led, open source project with the ability to make real decisions. I think you're missing the point.  What is the

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
2010/4/5 Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) mar...@martux.org: 2010/4/5 Мартин Бохниг   (Martin Bochnig) mar...@martux.org: James: For 3 pretty ROI-worthless aquisitions alone (Cobalt, STK and MySQL) Sun's top-management spent 10 Billion USD (ten thousand millions!!!). Every time the behaved

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Simon Phipps
On Apr 5, 2010, at 14:19, Matthias Pfützner wrote: Therefore the idea to opensource the software has never been intended to create additional revenue from it, but to generate mind-share with the developer community, so that in FUTURE more ISVs, or big software-companies or even smaller

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Volker A. Brandt wrote: Hmmm... I have seen a number of OGB members post in the various lists. What do you want them to do? Post yes, there will be 2010.03 every day? None of the new OGB members are involved with the 2010.03 release. People need to remember the OGB manages the community, not

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) wrote: No, you are missing the point. The idea was to provide a free and open AllInOne A to Z software platform stack, that would be able to compete with LinUX and to win the OS battle. Then that was a mind-numbingly stupid strategy - because: a) it would take

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Matthias Pfützner wrote: You (James Mansion) wrote: if you look at Sun's annual earnings documents, you might notice, that most of Sun's revenue and especially margin was generated by big iron hardware. Indeed I had. And the money coming in from software was mostly licebnses to OEMs

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread James Mansion
Simon Phipps wrote: Exactly right. As it turned out it was also comfortably profitable. Sun's terminal problems lay elsewhere. Which bit of the last financial statement shows evidence of this - that the profits came from open sourcing, not merely from software that was open source before

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de writes: more ISVs, ISV ? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread bsd
If it's the definition you're looking for, it is independent software vendor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 5/10 09:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Matthias Pfütznermatth...@pfuetzner.de writes: more ISVs, ISV ? Independent Software Vendor ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Uros! Officially they published that they will continue to support Java, OpenSolaris, NetBeans,Oracle and Independent Oracle UGs Well, they said they will integrate NetBeans, but I know what you mean. but reality is completely different. They do notinteract with us (Leaders, at

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello HeCSa! I (we) sent emails to the assigned Oracle employee to deal with the communities, but didn't receive an answer in more than a month, or maybe more time. Have you tried emailing Jimm Grisanzio, or someone from the OGB? This sounds more like a communications problem. Regards --

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Hello HeCSa! I (we) sent emails to the assigned Oracle employee to deal with the communities, but didn't receive an answer in more than a month, or maybe more time. Have you tried emailing Jimm Grisanzio, or someone from

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/ 4/10 08:41 AM, Peter Jones wrote: I have a question.. So you should have started a new thread! I complete boot failure (hung on blue startup) on b133 updated...could not figure out what happened.However looking back I was using a flash drive usb which I removed before it

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Martin! this time you are going too far to the opposite end (not every of their PR-statements might turn out to be the truth). Of course. This is called marketing. :-) Did you notice? Their first move after the takeover was to lay-off Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps. Can you

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Tribble
2010/4/4 Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) mar...@martux.org: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Hello HeCSa! I (we) sent emails to the assigned Oracle employee to deal with the communities, but didn't receive an answer in more than a month, or maybe more

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
(If people have been paying attention they may have seen the term 2010.H1 used in places.) Aaah, so that's what it means. Thanks Peter. Regards -- Volker -- Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Ken Mays
Hi Sarah, Due to some security concerns and other issues, I'd flipped a coin and await the forthcoming snv_b138 kernel release. As for any independent distro releases between now and before snv_b138, my opinion is to wait on doing any major system upgrades, 'production' related migrations, or

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Uros Nedic
this time you are going too far to the opposite end (not every of their PR-statements might turn out to be the truth). Of course. This is called marketing. :-) This is called bad marketing. Once you promise something you have tofulfill it, otherwise nobody would trust you if you again

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Uros Nedic
I have no more idea what the release date is than anybody else. But there have been absolutely clear public commitments that there will be a release, and the only official statement on the date I've seen is that it will be in the first half of calendar year 2010. (If people have been paying

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (?? ?? (Martin Bochnig)) wrote: Did you notice? Their first move after the takeover was to lay-off Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps. Can you explain this with your logics from above? How would you? He left on his own: http://twitter.com/webmink/status/10861922797

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread HeCSa
Hi, Volker! On 04/ 4/10 06:12 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Hello HeCSa! I (we) sent emails to the assigned Oracle employee to deal with the communities, but didn't receive an answer in more than a month, or maybe more time. Have you tried emailing Jimm Grisanzio, or someone from

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Simon Phipps
It's been an interesting does he take sugar experience watching the conversation about me; I thought I'd interject with a link to a story that has correct information: http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/former-sun-open-source-officer-joins-osi-board-109 As for Oracle: Oracle are

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Simon Phipps webm...@opensolaris.org wrote: It's been an interesting does he take sugar experience watching the conversation about me; I thought I'd interject with a link to a story that has correct information:

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Martin, sorry, yes, you're right, I didn't want to discredit you... There's been too much FUD here lately, thererfore I might be over-reacting! Sorry again! Matthias You (?? ?? (Martin Bochnig)) wrote: 2010/4/4 Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de: You (?? ??  

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de wrote: You (?? ?? (Martin Bochnig)) wrote: Did you notice? Their first move after the takeover was to lay-off Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps. Can you explain this with your logics from above? How

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Pfützner
OK, as Simon now stated, that he has not been offered a position at Oracle, I have to withdraw my assumption, that everybody who passed March 1st was offered one... Sorry for the confusion... Matthias I (Matthias Pfützner) wrote: You (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Matthias Pfützner

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Pfützner
And, for the audience to note here, we (a couple people inside Sun/Oracle) are also trying to get those, who can speak to send out some words. But, as Simon said: Oracle is a company that passes information along, once the decisions are made. As long as there are no decisions, there is no info.

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
2010/4/4 Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de: Martin, sorry, yes, you're right, I didn't want to discredit you... There's been too much FUD here lately, thererfore I might be over-reacting! Sorry again!      Matthias Matthias, ok. Thanks for publicly correcting your previous

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Volker A. Brandt
No, because I understand Jim is not who can send us CD's and/or minibooks for our next Latinamerican Installation Festival (we sent, from the Venezuela, Colombia, and Argentina, for exampe, several emails about this), or who is in charge of sending us news about the position of Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread James Mansion
Simon Phipps wrote: It's been an interesting does he take sugar experience watching the conversation about me; I thought I'd interject with a link to a story that has correct information: http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/former-sun-open-source-officer-joins-osi-board-109 Ths

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Simon Phipps
On Apr 4, 2010, at 21:46, James Mansion wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: It's been an interesting does he take sugar experience watching the conversation about me; I thought I'd interject with a link to a story that has correct information:

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-03 Thread Don Quichotte
This is getting ridiculous, it's been a week, least they could do is reassure us that they haven't given up on OpenSolaris. I don't mind the delay but come on Oracle, throw us a friggin' bone here. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

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