On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Venky TV <venky...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, I am concerned about OpenSolaris. Solaris as an operating > system probably has a brighter future under Oracle than before, but > the OpenSolaris project does not seem to make too much sense for > Oracle. I don't see them being too interested in an Ubuntu-like > desktop-friendly OS being developed out in the open. Solaris might > just go back to being a closed-source big iron operating system, which > would be a terrible shame. >
Hmmm. I'd like Solaris to be an open-source, big-iron OS. The concept of Solaris on the desktop has always disturbed me, it's like err the Pope featuring in Playboy. In (related?) news, J.G.Ballard, author of 'Empire of the Sun' passed away on Sunday. <plug> My cartoon on the Oracle-Sun acquisition : http://iyermatter.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun/ </plug> -Jai > As for MySQL, I just don't know. It is kind of like the Vatican > picking up Playboy, Inc. It might make sense to keep it going from a > business perspective, but something *just* does not seem right. > > Venky (the Second). > > -- > One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong. > >
