Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-07-29 Thread Justin Lee Ewing
Just a quick update on this... as of this morning :) http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dell-and-hp-to-certify-and-resell-all-three-oracle-operating-systems-oracle-solaris-oracle-enterprise-linux-and-oracle-vm-on-their-x86-server-computers-2010-07-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
We got the same information from HP in a response to an RFP. So I'd say it's official. That doesn't mean it's right (nor that it's the whole story). There's enough confusion that it's conceivable that one part of HP (or Oracle) doesn't know what the other part is doing. -- This message posted f

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Scanlon
Erik Trimble said: "That's OK. It was resolved off-list. No harm, no foul." Yea but I'm still willing to own being a jerk publicly. Sorry about that. Blame the lack of Phillip Morris's products in my bloodstream if you must. Usually I try not to make personal attacks as that is an logical falla

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Martinez > > quote: > > As you may have heard, Oracle has exercised its right to terminate HP's > Solaris technical support agreement. If you have purchased Solaris 10 >

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-20 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/20/2010 3:23 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: Do us _all_ a favor and please shut up. You're doing OpenSolaris no favors with all the crap you've been vomiting out. Really, more harm than good since its all based on what you think, or what you ate that day, or if traffic was bad that morning, or an

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-20 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
> Do us _all_ a favor and please shut up. You're doing > OpenSolaris no favors with all the crap you've been > vomiting out. Really, more harm than good since its > all based on what you think, or what you ate that > day, or if traffic was bad that morning, or any one > of a million factors that ob

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Scanlon
Erik Trimble said: "Note: I have no inside knowledge about anything in this message. It's my personal reading of the tea leaves that have been coming out of Oracle's mouth." That's not tea leaves coming out of their mouth, it's something that looks like flem but isn't. It probably came from one

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/19/2010 8:45 AM, bsd wrote: Dropping OpenSolaris on the IBM mainframe was logical, because there would never be any market. However, to me, this clearly illustrates Oracle's intent to push Solaris on SPARC only, in the same way that IBM has AIX on POWER only. Nah, I think that's pre

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, bsd > wrote: > > So.  They had a developer working on "Polaris" too, > and axed the project.  Ever hear of the processor > code-named the "Rock?"  After years and millions, Sun > also dropped that project. > > > > You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/20/10 10:55 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project when they clearly want Solaris/SPARC; and couldn't care less about Solaris running on x86? then I postulate you tune in to watch the unveiling of Oracle's next generation x86 systems on June 28

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Edward Martinez
> > You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project when > they clearly want Solaris/SPARC; and couldn't care > less about Solaris running on x86? then I postulate you tune in to watch the unveiling of Oracle's next generation x86 systems on June 28,10:00 a.m. PT http://www.oracle.com/us/pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Jason King
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, bsd wrote: > So.  They had a developer working on "Polaris" too, and axed the project.   > Ever hear of the processor code-named the "Rock?"  After years and millions, > Sun also dropped that project. > > You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project when they

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread bsd
So. They had a developer working on "Polaris" too, and axed the project. Ever hear of the processor code-named the "Rock?" After years and millions, Sun also dropped that project. You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project when they clearly want Solaris/SPARC; and couldn't care less

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Edward Martinez
> However, to me, this clearly illustrates Oracle's > intent to push Solaris on SPARC only, in the same > way that IBM has AIX on POWER only. I don't surmise that will be the situation. Orace is currently tunning OpenSolaris for the x86 platform,mainly Intel: quote: Oracle is talking up how

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread bsd
Dropping OpenSolaris on the IBM mainframe was logical, because there would never be any market. However, to me, this clearly illustrates Oracle's intent to push Solaris on SPARC only, in the same way that IBM has AIX on POWER only. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

2010-06-19 Thread Edward Martinez
if this is accurate. I have a hunch in the next couple of weeks or so, plans for solaris and opensolaris will begin to emerge, quote: As you may have heard, Oracle has exercised its right to terminate HP's Solaris technical support agreement. If you have purchased Solaris 10 Subscriptions