Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Karel Gardas
And yes, POWER has a bleak future. It will die eventually. I'm afraid POWER has more shining future than SPARC unfortunately. Have you heard anything about A2? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_A2 -- very good CPU on the paper with ability to kill Niagara (based on pricing of course). --

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/9/2010 4:38 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: And yes, POWER has a bleak future. It will die eventually. I'm afraid POWER has more shining future than SPARC unfortunately. Have you heard anything about A2? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_A2 -- very good CPU on the paper with ability to

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Erik Trimble) wrote: On 9/9/2010 4:38 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: And yes, POWER has a bleak future. It will die eventually. I'm afraid POWER has more shining future than SPARC unfortunately. Have you heard anything about A2? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_A2 -- very good CPU on

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/9/2010 9:15 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: Remember: Even withe the old E10K, Solaris at GA date was capable to use all that hardware from a single kernel... And that's more than 12 years back... ;-) So, scaling on cores, CPUs and thread is

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Kyle McDonald
On 9/9/2010 9:49 AM, Kyle McDonald wrote: It never shipped, (well it did kinda, but not in it's full glory) but the group I was in at Sun had developed HW to connect multiple E6K, and E10K machines (up to 16 if I remember correctly) together, and scale a single kernel instance across all of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Kyle McDonald)wrote: On 9/9/2010 9:15 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: Remember: Even withe the old E10K, Solaris at GA date was capable to use all that hardware from a single kernel... And that's more than 12 years back... ;-) So, scaling on cores, CPUs and thread is what Solaris still

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Octave Orgeron
Message From: Kyle McDonald kmcdon...@egenera.com To: matth...@pfuetzner.de Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 8:49:52 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Octave Orgeron
karel.gar...@centrum.cz Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 9:04:55 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express On 9/9/2010 9:49 AM, Kyle McDonald wrote: It never shipped, (well it did kinda, but not in it's full glory) but the group I was in at Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/9/2010 11:42 AM, Octave Orgeron wrote: There was a solution for the Sun Fire 6800-25k servers that allowed you to do this. The name escapes me, but I know Sun had a course for it and sold it to several universities and of course the US

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/9/2010 10:27 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: No, I was not talking about that, I simply meant: The E10K had 64 CPUs and at GA date, Solaris was ready to use 64 CPUs from a single kernel... Unlike the IBM 795, which can currently have MORE

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Orvar Korvar
Are you speculating or do you have some substance? You seem to know a bit about AIX kernel code? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Perhaps some sort of side project can be started to look at a generic way of making device driver sources from Linux and the BSDs work with the OpenSolaris kernel (as separate Solaris modules so there are no clashes between the CDDL and GPL/BSD licenses.) Most of the devices are

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Are you speculating or do you have some substance? You seem to know a bit about AIX kernel code? He's not wrong about AIX history - it has had parts of its kernel pageable for a long time. But that is less important now than it was once, esp. since CPUs are so fast, and disks, while large

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
Those news are 7 years old! things have changed since then What things have changed since then? Do you have any links where IBM executives take back what they said? It is said: The roadmap is to kill AIX in the future. It makes sense, as Linux is selling more than AIX. And x86 is soon faster

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
But I still think if Oracle does not change it's current ideas for solaris it will die out. Solaris has always been more advaced then linux but that has not stop shops migrating to linux Everyone knows that Unix lost ground. The thing is, there have never been a compelling reason to switch to

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On 7.09.10 19:33, Orvar Korvar wrote: IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. AIX will be killed. IBM has said that officially. Here is links that confirm my claim. Just google a bit and you will see.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: It doesnt matter how much Unix has lost ground. I agree that Unix lost ground, everyone knows that. The question is not about the past. Let us instead try to look into the future instead. Oracle has 370.000 customers and they pay big

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread usafverteran
That is nonsense and just tabloid talk. IBM just recently announced AIX 7 for their POWER 7 server line. Linux cannot in any way use the full capabilities of POWER architecture the way it is exploited with AIX. If IBM was to eliminate AIX, they would have to also kill their POWER

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:10 AM, usafverteran us...@yahoo.com wrote: That is nonsense and just tabloid talk. IBM just recently announced AIX 7 for their POWER 7 server line.  Linux cannot in any way use the full capabilities of POWER architecture the way it is exploited with AIX.  If IBM was

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread usafverteran
Businesses that use RHEL use their Satellite server and don't use kickstart and other methods that are free because they want support. Hence they shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to save money over expensive AIX and Solaris. And up2date? Apparently you aren't very versed

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
You are free to speculate of course. But when IBM executives say something, there is some substance in what they say. More substance than in a speculation. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:44 AM, usafverteran wrote: Businesses that use RHEL use their Satellite server and don't use kickstart and other methods that are free because they want support. They serve different functions. The satellite server is used for centrally deploying software updates;

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
How is that nonsense? IBM has said OFFICIALLY they are going to kill AIX. When IBM say so, is it nonsense of me to repeat what IBM said? How is it nonsense? In fact, it makes very sense to repeat what IBM say. Actually, it is nonsense to reject IBMs own official statements. In other words, it

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread usafverteran
You're using an article 7 to 8 years old to base your conjecture? Why would they spend millions developing AIX if it was being killed? You also fail to realize transportation, finance, insurance, banking, retail, defense, and all sectors of the economy run AIX. They have no intention of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Utterback
On 09/08/10 13:36, usafverteran wrote: You're using an article 7 to 8 years old to base your conjecture? Why would they spend millions developing AIX if it was being killed? You also fail to realize transportation, finance, insurance, banking, retail, defense, and all sectors of the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Healey
Actually, its less the name AIX will be dropped but more that AIX will be transformed into the Power port of Linux and called AIX. The user space has been mostly Linux for quite a while and I suspect there will be much rejoicing in kernel, Why the HECK did we obsess with a kernel that can

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Octave Orgeron
...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 12:17:25 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Mays
Orvar (kebabber) said: IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. Yes, some analysts made statements like this but it never was officially put in stone. Most of the time, people speculate on such greener grass until reality hits them. Linux is not at the level of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Wow, we're still using this list to blather on about speculation about random unrelated unknown and hypothetical nonsense? I thought those days were finally behind us. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Edward Martinez
You also fail to realize transportation, finance, insurance, banking, retail, defense, and all sectors of the economy run AIX. They have no intention of running their operations deemed critical to cheap x86 hardware running Linux. There is something to be said for developing your

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Octave Orgeron
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 10:29:38 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Orvar Korvar
It doesnt matter how much Unix has lost ground. I agree that Unix lost ground, everyone knows that. The question is not about the past. Let us instead try to look into the future instead. Oracle has 370.000 customers and they pay big money. Sun had 35.000 customers. Oracle will make sure that

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Octave Orgeron
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 3:47:39 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Orvar On 6.09.10 17:06, Orvar Korvar wrote: IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. AIX will be killed. IBM has said that officially. Really? Where? Could you point on some recent info around this, please? Best regards, Milan

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Octave Orgeron
Kaminski fabiokamin...@gmail.com To: Octave Orgeron unixcons...@yahoo.com Cc: usafverteran us...@yahoo.com; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Mon, September 6, 2010 11:59:17 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express dream, dream, dream

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Gary
As an interesting side note, prior to Oracle launching Unbreakable Linux I noticed that critical db patches (not quarterly bundles) were usually released for Solaris followed shortly by Linux and Windows versions. After Oracle started their Linux initiative, I noticed that they all had roughly

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Octave Orgeron
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 10:35:30 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express As an interesting side note, prior to Oracle launching Unbreakable Linux I noticed that critical db patches (not quarterly bundles

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Fabio Kaminski
] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express It doesnt matter how much Unix has lost ground. I agree that Unix lost ground, everyone knows that. The question is not about the past. Let us instead try to look into the future instead. Oracle has 370.000 customers and they pay

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Orvar Korvar
IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. AIX will be killed. IBM has said that officially. Here is links that confirm my claim. Just google a bit and you will see. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2003/01/29/ibm-linux-will-replace-aix-2129537/

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
Those news are 7 years old! things have changed since then On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. AIX will be killed. IBM has said that officially. Here is links that confirm

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Gary
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM PDT, Orvar Korvar wrote: Here is links that confirm my claim. Just google a bit and you will see. From a LinuxWorld conference in January of '03? Interestingly, Steve Mills now heads their hardware group in addition to their software group...

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 6, 2010, at 1:00 PM, usafverteran wrote: Every day I see Linux servers and clusters crash with nary an explanation as to the cause. Red Hat support and Novell support are unable to give an answer, so the problems continue. I've actually gotten fairly good responses from RedHat, when

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Edward Martinez
It doesnt matter how much Unix has lost ground. I agree that Unix lost ground, everyone knows that. The question is not about the past. Let us instead try to look into the future instead. Oracle has 370.000 customers and they pay big money. Sun had 35.000 customers. Oracle will make sure

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Edward Martinez quoted: Thanks to its strong support of the x86 hardware architecture, in terms of overall volume, Linux is just a much higher volume product than Solaris ever was, says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst. Volume of licenses tells us nothing about the kind

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Edward Martinez
On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Edward Martinez quoted: Thanks to its strong support of the x86 hardware architecture, in terms of overall volume, Linux is just a much higher volume product than Solaris ever was, says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst. Volume of licenses tells us nothing about the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Gary
You wrote: Well i don't want  to start disrepecting my follow solaris users/devs with this turning into a heated argument Sorry if my comments came across too strong... I honestly would like to see the IDC quotes in context, however, as I have mixed feelings about orgs like IDC re their

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Utterback
On 09/07/10 16:42, Edward Martinez wrote: Zemlin also disputes Sun's notion that Solaris technology gives it an edge over Linux. The only people I hear talk about DTrace [Solaris's technology for assessing program and OS behaviours] and ZFS [the Zettabyte File System] as competitive

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Erik Trimble
Honestly, (and I'm not speaking in any way as an Oracle insider, or from any inside knowledge), the question is not Will Solaris Survive?, the real question is Will Solaris continue to be a General Purpose Computing OS/platform? Oracle (pre-Sun) was massively invested in Solaris as their

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 09/ 7/10 09:51 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: Honestly, (and I'm not speaking in any way as an Oracle insider, or from any inside knowledge), the question is not Will Solaris Survive?, the real question is Will Solaris continue to be a General Purpose Computing OS/platform? Oracle (pre-Sun)

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-07 Thread Jason
It would be a marked departure from their past behavior. If you look at most of their products, they are almost all merely means to get you to buy an RDBMS license. The whole appliance concept pretty much falls into that as well. The concept of a general purpose OS does not (I suppose they

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
IBM has publicly said that they are phasing out AIX in favour of Linux. AIX will be killed. IBM has said that officially. Development pace is slowing down. IBM is shifting more resources to Linux. I wouldnt bet on AIX in the long term. On the other hand, Solaris has a far larger user base

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 29/08/2010 23:34, usafverteran wrote: Does Solaris 10 have Active Memory Expansion? Does Solaris 10 have Workload Manager? yes, and yes. Both were available even before Solaris 10. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Edward Martinez
11. Solaris has a bright future. i don't think so. Linux has been running solaris out of the server rooms for a long time, that is why in 2005 SUN decided to open up solaris and give solaris away freely hoping that would attract customers. from 2005 -2009 things did seem more promising

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread usafverteran
Unix, meaning Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, have a market and are not rapidly decreasing as you allude to in your comment. This is a fallacy and more marketing gibberish than anything. Linux cannot hold a candle to AIX or Solaris on proprietary hardware and RAS features. AIX has had features (LPARs)

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Octave Orgeron
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Mon, September 6, 2010 2:04:38 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express 11. Solaris has a bright future. i

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Octave Orgeron
] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express Unix, meaning Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, have a market and are not rapidly decreasing as you allude to in your comment. This is a fallacy and more marketing gibberish than anything. Linux cannot hold a candle to AIX or Solaris on proprietary

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-06 Thread Fabio Kaminski
...@yahoo.com To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Mon, September 6, 2010 3:00:37 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express Unix, meaning Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, have a market and are not rapidly decreasing as you allude to in your

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-29 Thread usafverteran
You said IBM with AIX 6 is copying Solaris 10 because of WPARs? I could counter that Sun with Solaris 10 was copying AIX. srcmstr has been around in AIX since its inception and Solaris 10 came out with SMF which is close to the same thing. Also, AIX has had LPARs for a decade while Sun came

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-27 Thread Uros Nedic
@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express Uros Nedic wrote: You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-27 Thread Uros Nedic
@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express Uros Nedic wrote: You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Uros Nedic Excellent observation Rob. Each good intentioned opinion is worth to be heard no matter weather they come from developersor from spectators. The way I remember it

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Jones
Uros Nedic wrote: You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen by people working on it like you :).Or Solarix Express :). For the distros I work on, the names

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Uros Nedic wrote: You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen by people working on it like you :).Or Solarix Express :). For the distros I work on, the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Jones
There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe?Google non profit services? seems like somebody already started one but don't know if it is still active

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Cia Watson
On 08/23/10 11:06 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe?Google non profit services? seems like somebody already started

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Octave Orgeron
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* - Original Message From: Shawn Walker shawn.wal...@oracle.com To: carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 12:04:58 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Uros Nedic
cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Uros Nedic 1. Lets turn the name of our fork to OS-UX. Then, we wouldleave some LOL ... :-) But I'm not sure you were kidding. Are you sure you want to use a product called

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Uros Nedic wrote: Without any irony, reading all smart ideas here I felt free to add few of them that might be useful. 1. Lets turn the name of our fork to OS-UX. You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Uros Nedic
You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen by people working on it like you :).Or Solarix Express :). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Uros Nedic Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen by people working on it like you :).Or Solarix Express :). What's your point? ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
The bad side I see, is that we won't be able to build appliances based on Solaris 11 (nor Solaris 11 Express). AFAIK, each appliance I would sell, would require me to register the OS by paying the Support Subscription, and this would be each and every year... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (unless you really want or need support from M$ or Apple). RedHat

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread carlopmart
Shawn Walker wrote: On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (unless you really want or need support from M$ or

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 09:41 AM, carlopmart wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (unless you

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/20/10 09:41 AM, carlopmart wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 08/20/10 03:26 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ... I can't see any other OS (nor M$ nor OSX) that to be licensed requires annual support subscription...when you buy Wins or Macs, you pay once for your license, that's all (unless you

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise, that was purposely crippled to use only

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license) Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise, that was purposely crippled to use only

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
Actually, Oracle is opening up Solaris 11. Solaris 10 was closed source. This is important and no one complained on S10 being closed? When/if Oracle incorporates fixes from Illumos, those fixes will be available later, when Oracle releases the binary distro and the source code. This does not

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
And from today, also Adam Leventhal. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise, that was purposely crippled to use only limited RAM, disk space, and CPU cores. That's because Solaris was under Sun, not under Oracle. Dmitry. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com wrote: I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise, that was purposely crippled to use only limited RAM, disk space, and CPU cores. That's because Solaris was under Sun, not under Oracle. In 1990 Sun did tell costomers that they

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license) Here it is: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/overview/index.html Excerpt from the page above: XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread usafverteran
What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com wrote: I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwis= e, that was purposely crippled to use only limited RAM, disk space, and CPU cores. That's because Solaris was under Sun, not under Oracle. In 1990 Sun did tell costomers that

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. Every company has their own product naming guidelines. Express from IBM means other thing than Express from Oracle. Dmitry. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread usafverteran
What are you talking about? XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine. DB2 Express-C supports up to 2 cores (1 cpu), 2GB memory, no database size limit, no connection limits, no user limits, 32- or 64-bit. -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
What are you talking about? I am talking about *Oracle* product, which is limited in memory usage, disk space usage, and CPU usage, and has word Express in the product name. Dmitry. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/19/10 10:09 AM, usafverteran wrote: What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. The point was the statement Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license). Dmitry simply found one example. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:34:06AM -0700, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: What are you talking about? I am talking about *Oracle* product, which is limited in memory usage, disk space usage, and CPU usage, and has word Express in the product name. Dmitry. Can't you use the full version of

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
On 08/19/10 10:09 AM, usafverteran wrote: What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. The point was the statement Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license). Dmitry simply found one example. He was right; it's

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread usafverteran
I know that is what you're talking about, but I specifically meant, what you mean by express mean something different between IBM and Oracle, because both of their database express products have limits. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Tamer Embaby
Some of the replies to J.S.: Thank God this is an April Fool :-) Otherwise what would this world do without OpenSource Software? Cannot imagine a day without Sun's open/free tools and technologies. Keep it alive and kicking. It's been always and still disappointing to me since the first

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Can't you use the full version of Oracle freely as well (though not for production use)? Ok, maybe I can. Exactly the same way as I can use Solaris 10. My initial thought was different - I am trying to guess what Solaris 11 Express (successor of OpenSolaris) would be. I afraid that it may be

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
I afraid that it may be functionally limited - compared to full Solaris 11. ... and compared to OpenSolaris :( -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/19/10 12:29 PM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: Can't you use the full version of Oracle freely as well (though not for production use)? Ok, maybe I can. Exactly the same way as I can use Solaris 10. My initial thought was different - I am trying to guess what Solaris 11 Express

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-18 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
We should not forget that Larry Steve are said to be old time friends. Apple showed great interest on ZFS (as any other OS vendor, be it interest or envy). Who knows what caused the decision to drop it? Maybe Steve was aware of next Solaris happenings? I see no other reason why any OS vendor

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gabriele Bulfon gbul...@sonicle.com wrote: We should not forget that Larry Steve are said to be old time friends. Apple showed great interest on ZFS (as any other OS vendor, be it interest or envy). Who knows what caused the decision to drop it? Maybe Steve was aware of next Solaris

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