On Friday 11 September 2009, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:22:24AM -0700, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote:
> > It's already been done (in the closed source edition), so
> > presumably it would not require a huge effort to include
> > that feature in the open source edition. The justification
> > for not including it ("USB is an enterprise feature") seems
> > rather dubious to me.
>
> My understanding is that features like usb, e1000 nic, sata aren't
> included in the ose version because of nondisclosure agreements. If it
> wasn't for that, my guess is that Sun would include those features in
> the ose version, just like they have with all the other features.

Sun/Oracle will decide from time to time of some feature will be
included in the OSE version or not. E1000, SATA and iSCSI are
already included, USB and RDP is not.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems, Inc.    www.sun.com

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