Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: I think Oracle is going to keep it simple; Solaris is for the enterprise and Opensolaris is a science project. And since oracle is doing so well selling solaris and other software to the enterprise, why release new opensolaris now? when business

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-27 Thread Gary
Release dates for other operating systems since OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released or frozen for release: FreeBSD 7.2 5/2009 8.0 11/2009 7.3 3/2010 8.1 RC1 has been released OpenBSD 4.5 4/2009 4.6 10/2009 4.7 5/2010 AIX 7.010/2010 (targeted) NetBSD 5.0 4/2009

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-26 Thread Graham McArdle
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote: As many of us have stated, the next release of Solaris will be based on the work done in OpenSolaris. But will it still be recognizable as Solaris? Or is it going to be just another Linux clone, albeit

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Martinez
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote: As many of us have stated, the next release of Solaris will be based on the work done in OpenSolaris. But will it still be recognizable as Solaris? Or is it going to be just another Linux clone,

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-26 Thread Edward Martinez
the reason for the delay in OpenSolaris 2010.?? release is because they are also working on synchronising the feature set with Solaris 11 and running lots of tests to confirm that customers on OpenSolaris support contracts will be able to migrate successfully to Solaris 11. But hey, what do

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-25 Thread Henry Pepper
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.com wrote: On 24 Jun 2010, at 23:16, Edward Martinez wrote: whoo whoo,  SUN seems to be turning around! Like it or not, there is no Sun any more to turn around.[1] Cheeri, Calum. [1] Well, except in the last few countries

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-25 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote: As many of us have stated, the next release of Solaris will be based on the work done in OpenSolaris. But will it still be recognizable as Solaris? Or is it going to be just another Linux clone, albeit with a

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-25 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On 06/25/10 15:54, Fredrich Maney wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@oracle.com wrote: As many of us have stated, the next release of Solaris will be based on the work done in OpenSolaris. But will it still be recognizable as Solaris? Or is it

[osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-24 Thread Edward Martinez
whoo whoo, SUN seems to be turning around! quote: Sun, which makes computer servers, has been struggling with severe market-share declines, but cost cuts under Oracle appear to be turning the company around. The quarter was also significant because it marked a turning point: It was Oracle's

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-24 Thread Gary
Well, you don't make money my shoveling millions into a non-revenue producing product (aka OpenSolaris). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-24 Thread Erik Trimble
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:09 -0700, Gary wrote: Well, you don't make money my shoveling millions into a non-revenue producing product (aka OpenSolaris). Careful with that assumption (non-revenue-producing). You know what they say about assumptions... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-24 Thread Calum Benson
On 24 Jun 2010, at 23:16, Edward Martinez wrote: whoo whoo, SUN seems to be turning around! Like it or not, there is no Sun any more to turn around.[1] Cheeri, Calum. [1] Well, except in the last few countries to fully integrate :) -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] whoo whoo - Oracle's net jumps 25 pct in first full Sun qtr

2010-06-24 Thread Bart Smaalders
On 06/24/10 16:09, Gary wrote: Well, you don't make money my shoveling millions into a non-revenue producing product (aka OpenSolaris). But w/o Solaris, a SPARC server is an expensive means of converting electricity to hot air. As many of us have stated, the next release of Solaris will be