On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Justin Lee Ewing <jlew...@jrleindustries.com> wrote: > I'm not sure how there is mistreatment when known that Solaris 10 is the > current production-grade product and OpenSolaris, for all intents and > purposes, a beta product that is currently under active development. I was > actually surprised when SUN provided a level of support for OpenSolaris > above and beyond bug reporting and resolution.
So be it, but the point is that they did offer and push it, guaranteeing the same level of support as Solaris, etc. I (perhaps foolishly) believed it and invested heavily in it. For them to go back on this is an affront to the idea of being a reliable, trusted provider. I'd expect this sort of behaviour from some of the lesser technology companies, but not from Sun and Oracle. This is what's supposed to set them apart. And while I respect your opinion that Solaris 10 is a "current production-grade product," to me, the reality is that it's many versions behind in its huge number of bundled services and it's a lot of work to trim down. Its footprint is enormous compared to OpenSoalris and its not nearly as modern. I've worked on it since before it was called Solaris, so I've lived with this for decades now. To keep up with these fresh (albeit comparatively crude) Linux variants, this paradigm had to change and OpenSolaris was the solution. Thin and modern but still tremendously more solid than the others. That's essentially why we adopted it en masse. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
