Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-02-01 Thread Jussi Nieminen
> > Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? > > You get http://www.oracle.com > > Very quick change Yeah, and now we got Oracle logos on opensolaris.org website also. This is depressing. Goodbye Sun! Things will never be the same again. A big part of the computer history just died.

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Anon Y Mous wrote: > If Oracle retires Sun's infrastructure but still keeps the Solaris / > OpenSolaris projects going, then that means that opensolaris.org will > probably be running on Oracle Unbreakable Linux, which is a rebadged version > of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The irony of Solaris d

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-29 Thread Sean Sprague
Jim, What's interesting about the general statements thus far is this: growth pervades the rhetoric. That's new. I like it. Sorry, but what does "growth pervades the rhetoric" actually mean? It sounds like something meaningless that would have been put out by the defective British Government

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Grisanzio
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris look and feel, which tends to be blue/silver to something bright red. It would be just too annoying. Bright red will do very well in the greater China market. Very very well, indeed. Yah, things are a bit red

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris > look and feel, which tends to be blue/silver to > something bright red. It would be just too annoying. Bright red will do very well in the greater China market. Very very well, indeed. Thus, quite contrary to what probably everyone else i

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris look and feel, which > tends to be > blue/silver to something bright red. It would be just too > annoying. I always thought we should just stick with the gorgeous and elegant 2008.05 branding for all of the OpenSolaris releases. The dark bl

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Hillel Lubman
I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris look and feel, which tends to be blue/silver to something bright red. It would be just too annoying. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Links to another server. Not a good sign that they plan on keeping it. > They will retire the Sun server infrastructure and cut over to their own > eventually. > Integration would be a better sign! If Oracle retires Sun's infrastructure but still keeps the Solaris / OpenSolaris projects going

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>Well, it's a good thing that for marketing purposes, Sun starting calling >SunOS "Solaris", startin g with SunOS 5. If they hadn't done that, we'd have to to call Solaris "OracleOS" now! No, really, there was a Solaris 1.0.1 (SunOS 4.1.4) Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Gary, I cannot quite grasp the name "Oracle Solaris" which they called it in the webcasts, when I've been saying "Sun Solaris" for many, many years. Statements of ownership in two differing forms. I too cannot accept the former. personally; having been (and remain) a staunch Sun supporte

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Well, it's a good thing that for marketing purposes, Sun starting calling SunOS "Solaris", starting with SunOS 5. If they hadn't done that, we'd have to to call Solaris "OracleOS" now! I haven't called Solaris "Sun Solaris", not even once. That even made less sense after OpenSolaris was launche

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:16:53 +, Andrew Watkins wrote: > > Well, I am sure over the next few weeks we will get lots of version > upgrades: > > Oracle Studio 12.2 > Oracle Solaris 10 02/10 > and > OracleOS 5.10.1 br...@ytclaptop:~$ uname -a OracleOS YTCLaptop 5.11 onx_133 i86pc i386 i86pc Sol

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
Well, I am sure over the next few weeks we will get lots of version upgrades: Oracle Studio 12.2 Oracle Solaris 10 02/10 and OracleOS 5.10.1 Andrew On 28/01/2010 21:02, Sergio Schvezov wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 22:24 +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: but a link to opensolaris is here

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 22:24 +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: > but a link to opensolaris is here. > > http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.htm You also have Oracle Solaris Studio there :-P Will the former Sun Studio only work on Solaris in the near future? Or is this a

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Gary Bainbridge
I cannot quite grasp the name "Oracle Solaris" which they called it in the webcasts, when I've been saying "Sun Solaris" for many, many years. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
> but a link to opensolaris is here. > > http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/sola > ris/index.htm > Links to another server. Not a good sign that they plan on keeping it. They will retire the Sun server infrastructure and cut over to their own eventually. Integration would be a be

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: > Yea but www.opensolaris.org has not been re-directed. I don't know if that is > good or bad? > If it was not integrated is it going to be kept? The copyright footnote, however, has been changed promptly. -- Regards, Cyril _

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Norbert P. Copones
but a link to opensolaris is here. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.htm > Yea but www.opensolaris.org has not been re-directed. I don't know if that > is good or bad? > If it was not integrated is it going to be kept? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Mike DeMarco
Yea but www.opensolaris.org has not been re-directed. I don't know if that is good or bad? If it was not integrated is it going to be kept? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Paul Griffith wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:21 +, Andrew Watkins wrote: >> Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? >> >> You get http://www.oracle.com >> >> Very quick change > > Not really, they had 9 months to plan and to get everything in order

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Griffith
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:21 +, Andrew Watkins wrote: > Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? > > You get http://www.oracle.com > > Very quick change Not really, they had 9 months to plan and to get everything in order. Regards, Paul __

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Andrew, Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? You get http://www.oracle.com Very quick change Rest In Pieces :-( Sadly won't see you at LOSUG tonite... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? You get http://www.oracle.com Very quick change -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org