James C. McPherson wrote:
On 22/02/10 09:40 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Eugen Leitl<eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
Oracle's silence is starting to become a bit ominous. What are
the future options for zfs, should OpenSolaris be left dead
in the water by Suracle? I have no insight into who core
zfs developers are (have any been fired by Sun even prior to
the merger?), and who's paying them. Assuming a worst case
scenario, what would be the best candidate for a fork? Nexenta?
Debian already included FreeBSD as a kernel flavor into its
fold, it seems Nexenta could be also a good candidate.
Maybe anyone in the know could provide a short blurb on what
the state is, and what the options are.
Of course they can't. If they're in the know, then they're almost
certainly
not in a position to talk about it in public. Asking here does not help,
as I doubt if anyone from Sun/Oracle would be wise to give any response.
One more thing -- please remember that it's not "Sunacle",
"Suracle" or "Soracle", but "Oracle Corporation".
Actually, I think my new paycheck is supposed to be from "Oracle
America, Inc.". What is commonly known as Oracle is actually a group
of (holding) companies tied together in ways I don't understand.
But, yes, the proper way to talk all about this now is to say "Oracle"
when you mean the company, and "Sun" when you are talking about specific
brand-name products. The latter will almost certainly be restricted to
hardware - all software that I know of is having a 's/Sun/Oracle/'
regex done on it.
Also (as Peter has mentioned) nobody who is likely to post
to this mailing list would be authorised to comment or utter
anything authoritative. You will just have to wait for the
official word to be announced - as will we all.
James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Not just that, but I know that over here in Java-land, policies on a
whole bunch of things are being re-thought. So, if you are concerned,
please, TALK TO AN OFFICIAL rep (which is most likely your sales rep),
so they can get the word back up the management chain. Engineering is
really not a good place to try to push customer thoughts/feedback up
into management. Without being derogatory, this is what marketing
droids are for. These [engineers] aren't the droids you're looking for.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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